Last week we only had seven rounds, and started quite late, but we had a pretty good turn out. Here are the seven rounds.
Television
1) Johnny Carson was the host of the Tonight Show on NBC for thirty years. What year was his last as host?
2) What Television show, produced by the Jim Henson Production company takes place in 60,000,003 BC, and has many references to Petroleum throughout the show? (All the last names are references to Petrol companies
3) The show, ER, was based on a screenplay written by what scifi author, and based upon his own experiences as a medical resident in a hospital emergency room?
4) In the miniseries, Roots, what is Kunta Kinte’s name changed to on the plantation?
*Bonus* In Roots, the slaves have an unsuccessful attempt at taking over the slave ship that is transporting them on their miserable three month journey to the Americas. What ship became famous after its African captives revolted and overthrew their Spanish slave trading captors, and eventually went to the Supreme Court where the Africans were represented by John Quincy Adams?
5) What is the name of George Wendt’s character on Cheers?
Answers
1) 1992
2) Dinosaurs
3) Michael Crichton
4) Toby
*Bonus* La Amistad
5) Norm
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego
1) Your suspect was seen doing research on Mesoamerican step-pyramids and planning a trip to El-Castillo. To what archeological site is she traveling?
2) Guards overheard your suspect practicing conversational Russian, while reading up on Catherine the Great. She had a map of the Hermitage Museum.
3) Your suspect recently bought a car that has the steering wheel on the right side, was overheard speaking Chinese on her cell phone and changed all her money to dollars. Where is she headed?
4) Tourists say they saw a brown haired woman speaking about the tallest building in the western hemisphere and wearing a Maple Leaf Hockey shirt.
5) Your suspect was overheard saying that she wanted to experience the metropolitan feel of Frasier and get some fish at the Pike Place Market.
1) Chichen Itza
2) St Petersburg
3) Hong Kong
4) Toronto
5) Seattle
Cheese
1) What enzyme, produced in mammalian stomachs, is added to milk causing it to coagulate and thus form cheese? This is what causes cheese to not be kosher.
2) Roquefort is made with the milk of what animal?
3) “God defend me from the Welsh fairy, lest he transform me to a piece of cheese.” What Shakespeare play is this quote from?
4) What is the proper term borrowed from the French for goat cheese?
5) Which cheese serves as the filling for Cannoli?
Answers
1) Rennet
2) Sheep, ewe
3) Merry Wives of Windsor
4) Chevre
5) Ricotta half a point for marscapone
Current Events
1) Documents released to the ACLU state that what 9-11 mastermind made up information after being tortured?
2) Students in what country protested the arrival of Muammar Gaddafi, the president of Libya?
3) A security guard was killed last week at which Washington DC museum?
4) China began their third large scale excavations of the mausoleum of the first emperor of which dynasty this week?
5) Venezuela banned what soft drink because of health concerns?
Answers
1) Kalid Sheikh Mohammed
2) Italy
3) The Holocaust Museum
4) Qin
5) Coke Zero
This week in History
1) A non-violent march by 15,000 students in South Africa in 1976 turned into days of rioting when police opened fire and killed 566 children. These riots are now known as what?
2) In 1864 the Arlington National Cemetery was established on the 200 acres surrounding Arlington mansion, which was previously owned by whom?
3) The lynching of three African American men occurred in what Minnesota City on June 15th 1920, after rumors had circulated stating that the three men had raped a white girl, although later a medical official stated that there was no evidence of a rape?
4) June 14th 1938, Action Comics Issue 1 was released introducing what iconic comic book character?
5) In the US we celebrate July Fourth as our independence day, but I believe this is flawed. What we should celebrate is Juneteenth, which is the celebration of what?
Answers
1) Soweto Uprisings
2) Robert E Lee
3) Duluth
4) Superman
5) Slaves in Galveston being informed of their freedom. All are freed.
Comedians
Note: Although I love their sitcoms, the British are severely fucked in the head. On the British Channel four, the British viewing audience voted Rosanne Barr a better comedian than George Carlin. WTF? Wanna hear more fucked up? George Carlin came in 62nd. (Rosanne, 57)
1) What comedian hosted the first episode of Saturday Night Live?
2) What country did Dave Chappelle travel to after walking off the set of the third season of the Chappelle show, prompting the media to believe he had drug problems?
3) What was the title of Eddie Murphy’s first HBO Standup special?
4) Seinfeld was created by Jerry Seinfeld (Obviously) and what other comedian?
5) What comedian said, "We have been the cowards, lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." Leading to the cancelation of his show?
Answers
1) George Carlin
2) South Africa
3) Eddie Murphy Delirious
4) Larry David
5) Bill Maher
Sports
1) Which team won the 2009 NBA finals, and how many games were played?
2) Which Team won the 2009 Stanely Cup?
3) Manchester United accepted the record bid of $130 million from real Madrid for what player?
4) In Golf, three under par is known as what?
5) Tae Kwon Do is a martial art from what country?
Answers
1) Lakers, 5
2) Penguins
3) Christiano Ronaldo
4) An albatross
5) S. Korea
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Sorry, Late.
As usual, highlight the area after Answers, to see them.
Science and technology
1) All mammals except sloths and manatees have the same number of cervical vertebra. Which is how many?
2) Who are the two Steves that founded Apple Computer?
3) Which geologic period ended in the largest extinction event?
4) What creature, also the state fossil of Wisconsin, which had previously thrived finally went extinct in that event?
5) What does RAM stand for?
Answers
1) Seven
2) Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs
3) The Permian
4) Trilobite
5) Random Access Memory
This week in History
1) What roman Emperor committed suicide today in 68 AD after having been deposed by the Senate?
2) What Alabama governor stood in front of the door to Foster auditorium at the University of Alabama to block two black students from registering for classes in 1954?
3) June 12th 1939, the baseball hall of fame opened in what city?
4) 1967, Lyndon B Johnson nominated what man to become the first African American Supreme court justice?
5) What manmade lake almost completely drained after a dike wall eroded in Wisconsin last year?
Answers
1) Nero
2) George Wallace
3) Cooperstown, New York
4) Thurgood Marshall
5) Lake Delton
Barack also beats Paper
1) Who succeeded Barack as Illinois’ senator?
2) Barack’s Father was a member of what Ethnic group?
3) Obama opted to keep Bush’s secretary of defense on his cabinet. Who is Obama’s republican secretary of defense?
4) Where was Obama born?
5) Obama was the first black president of what legal journal?
Answers
1) Roland Burris
2) Luo
3) Robert Gates
4) Honolulu
5) Harvard Law Review
Random
1) Madison is sometimes described as the city of four lakes. What are the four lakes on the Yahara River chain?
2) What is a hippophobe afraid of?
3) Who was the first US astronaut to orbit the earth?
4) In the Peanuts comic strip who are the siblings of Lucy Van Pelt?
5) NYC Is composed of how many Boroughs?
Answers
1) Monona, Mendota, Waubesa, Kegonsa
2) Horses
3) John Glenn
4) Linus and Rerun
5) 5
Movies
1) Who directed the 1996 movie Girl 6?
2) In the 2000 movie, Castaway, What type of Ball is Wilson?
3) What animated movie directed by Don Bluth, featured an anthropomorphized Apatosaurus and was produced by Spielberg and George Lucas?
4) What was the title of the 1992 Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner film?
5) Disney’s first cell animated film will be released later this year, it’s first since 2004 and the first Disney movie featuring African Americans. What is the name of the film?
Answers
1) Spike Lee
2) Volley Ball
3) The Land Before Time
4) The Bodyguard
5) The Princess and the Frog
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego
Interpol News Flash! A national treasure, the Louvre has been stolen from france.
1) Witnesses saw your suspect buying stock in Shell oil and overheard her talking about the the peace palace, the headquarters of the International Court of Justice.
2) Your suspect was seen wearing a Toronga Zoo T-shirt and overheard saying she wanted to see the opera house created by the Danish architect Jorn Utzon
3) Your suspect was overheard practicing conversational Spanish, and speaking about the Sagrad Familia church. Current champions of the Uefa Champions league
4) Your suspect was seen reading a book about the new seven wonders of the world and took particular interest in the Christ Redeamer. She was listening to Girl from Ipanema on her Ipod.
5) A local detective overhead your suspect talking about visiting the city with the most Michelin stars in the world at 191, twice as many as it’s nearest competitor.
Answers
1) Den Haag
2) Sydney
3) Barcelona
4) Rio De Janeiro
5) Tokyo
Current Events
1) Who won the French Open?
2) The two American journalists caught sneaking into North Korea have been sentenced how many years of hard labor?
3) A Seven day gay pride festival was held for the first time in what Chinese city?
4) Omar Bongo, the longest serving president/dictator of an African country died this week. What country was he president of?
5) Dozens of children died in a fire at a child care center this week in what country?
Answers
1) Roger Federer
2) 12
3) Shanghai
4) Gabon
5) Mexico
Literature
1) How many lines are in a sonnet?
2) What letter is the Scarlet Letter in Hawthorne’s novel?
3) How many levels of hell are there in Dante’s inferno?
*bonus* Name them
4) In which book in the New Testament do the Four Horsemen appear?
5) What Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright wrote a screenplay for The Postman Always Rings Twice.
Answers
1) 14
2) A
3) 9
*Bonus* Limbo, the Lust level, the Glutton level, the Greedy level, the Wrathful and Slothful level, the Heretic level, the Violent level, the Fraudulent level, and the Traitor level.
4) Revelations
5) David Mamet
Sports
1) From what yard line do NFL teams attempt extra point conversions?
2) What sports hall of fame was Charles M Schultz inducted into?
3) What Green Bay kick returner was the MVP of Super Bowl XXXI in 1997
4) In Soccer the Referee is assisted by how many assistant referees?
5) What baseball player holds the most MVP awards?
Answers
1) 2-yard line
2) Hockey and figure skating
3) Desmond Howard
4) 2
5) Barry Bonds
Music
Name the band that these people are in
1) Brian Jones, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ian Stewart, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts
2) Billy Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool
3) Jon Taylor, Roger Taylor, Nick Rhodes, Simon Le Bon
4) Rob Thomas, Kyle Cook, Brian Yale, Paul Doucette, Adam Gaynor
5) Jimmy Page (guitar), Robert Plant (vocals), John Paul Jones (bass guitar, keyboards) and John Bonham (drums).
Answers
1) Rolling Stones
2) Green Day
3) Duran Duran
4) Match Box 20
5) Led Zeppelin
As usual, highlight the area after Answers, to see them.
Science and technology
1) All mammals except sloths and manatees have the same number of cervical vertebra. Which is how many?
2) Who are the two Steves that founded Apple Computer?
3) Which geologic period ended in the largest extinction event?
4) What creature, also the state fossil of Wisconsin, which had previously thrived finally went extinct in that event?
5) What does RAM stand for?
Answers
1) Seven
2) Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs
3) The Permian
4) Trilobite
5) Random Access Memory
This week in History
1) What roman Emperor committed suicide today in 68 AD after having been deposed by the Senate?
2) What Alabama governor stood in front of the door to Foster auditorium at the University of Alabama to block two black students from registering for classes in 1954?
3) June 12th 1939, the baseball hall of fame opened in what city?
4) 1967, Lyndon B Johnson nominated what man to become the first African American Supreme court justice?
5) What manmade lake almost completely drained after a dike wall eroded in Wisconsin last year?
Answers
1) Nero
2) George Wallace
3) Cooperstown, New York
4) Thurgood Marshall
5) Lake Delton
Barack also beats Paper
1) Who succeeded Barack as Illinois’ senator?
2) Barack’s Father was a member of what Ethnic group?
3) Obama opted to keep Bush’s secretary of defense on his cabinet. Who is Obama’s republican secretary of defense?
4) Where was Obama born?
5) Obama was the first black president of what legal journal?
Answers
1) Roland Burris
2) Luo
3) Robert Gates
4) Honolulu
5) Harvard Law Review
Random
1) Madison is sometimes described as the city of four lakes. What are the four lakes on the Yahara River chain?
2) What is a hippophobe afraid of?
3) Who was the first US astronaut to orbit the earth?
4) In the Peanuts comic strip who are the siblings of Lucy Van Pelt?
5) NYC Is composed of how many Boroughs?
Answers
1) Monona, Mendota, Waubesa, Kegonsa
2) Horses
3) John Glenn
4) Linus and Rerun
5) 5
Movies
1) Who directed the 1996 movie Girl 6?
2) In the 2000 movie, Castaway, What type of Ball is Wilson?
3) What animated movie directed by Don Bluth, featured an anthropomorphized Apatosaurus and was produced by Spielberg and George Lucas?
4) What was the title of the 1992 Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner film?
5) Disney’s first cell animated film will be released later this year, it’s first since 2004 and the first Disney movie featuring African Americans. What is the name of the film?
Answers
1) Spike Lee
2) Volley Ball
3) The Land Before Time
4) The Bodyguard
5) The Princess and the Frog
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego
Interpol News Flash! A national treasure, the Louvre has been stolen from france.
1) Witnesses saw your suspect buying stock in Shell oil and overheard her talking about the the peace palace, the headquarters of the International Court of Justice.
2) Your suspect was seen wearing a Toronga Zoo T-shirt and overheard saying she wanted to see the opera house created by the Danish architect Jorn Utzon
3) Your suspect was overheard practicing conversational Spanish, and speaking about the Sagrad Familia church. Current champions of the Uefa Champions league
4) Your suspect was seen reading a book about the new seven wonders of the world and took particular interest in the Christ Redeamer. She was listening to Girl from Ipanema on her Ipod.
5) A local detective overhead your suspect talking about visiting the city with the most Michelin stars in the world at 191, twice as many as it’s nearest competitor.
Answers
1) Den Haag
2) Sydney
3) Barcelona
4) Rio De Janeiro
5) Tokyo
Current Events
1) Who won the French Open?
2) The two American journalists caught sneaking into North Korea have been sentenced how many years of hard labor?
3) A Seven day gay pride festival was held for the first time in what Chinese city?
4) Omar Bongo, the longest serving president/dictator of an African country died this week. What country was he president of?
5) Dozens of children died in a fire at a child care center this week in what country?
Answers
1) Roger Federer
2) 12
3) Shanghai
4) Gabon
5) Mexico
Literature
1) How many lines are in a sonnet?
2) What letter is the Scarlet Letter in Hawthorne’s novel?
3) How many levels of hell are there in Dante’s inferno?
*bonus* Name them
4) In which book in the New Testament do the Four Horsemen appear?
5) What Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright wrote a screenplay for The Postman Always Rings Twice.
Answers
1) 14
2) A
3) 9
*Bonus* Limbo, the Lust level, the Glutton level, the Greedy level, the Wrathful and Slothful level, the Heretic level, the Violent level, the Fraudulent level, and the Traitor level.
4) Revelations
5) David Mamet
Sports
1) From what yard line do NFL teams attempt extra point conversions?
2) What sports hall of fame was Charles M Schultz inducted into?
3) What Green Bay kick returner was the MVP of Super Bowl XXXI in 1997
4) In Soccer the Referee is assisted by how many assistant referees?
5) What baseball player holds the most MVP awards?
Answers
1) 2-yard line
2) Hockey and figure skating
3) Desmond Howard
4) 2
5) Barry Bonds
Music
Name the band that these people are in
1) Brian Jones, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ian Stewart, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts
2) Billy Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool
3) Jon Taylor, Roger Taylor, Nick Rhodes, Simon Le Bon
4) Rob Thomas, Kyle Cook, Brian Yale, Paul Doucette, Adam Gaynor
5) Jimmy Page (guitar), Robert Plant (vocals), John Paul Jones (bass guitar, keyboards) and John Bonham (drums).
Answers
1) Rolling Stones
2) Green Day
3) Duran Duran
4) Match Box 20
5) Led Zeppelin
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Current events
1) Conan O’brian took over the tonight show this week, for which he had to move to where?
Bonus – Who is the leader of the Conan’s Tonight Show band?
2) Which motor vehicle producer – the second largest in the world – filed for bankruptcy this week?
3) An Airplane disappeared while making its voyage across the Atlantic, which airline was the plane from?
4) Kim Jong-Il named who was to be his successor as the leader of the North Korean Communist State. Who did he name?
5) A Doctor, George Tiller was shot dead in a church this past weekend. He was targeted because he is one of the few doctors in the country that will perform what procedure?
Answers
1) LA
Bonus – Max Weinberg
2) GM
3) Air France
4) His son – Kim Jong-Un
5) late term Abortion
Sports - Finals
1) What team won the Champions league final last Wednesday?
2) What team won the Super-14 rugby championship?
3) The NBA Finals will be taking place later this week. Which two teams will be competing?
4) Who won the Indy 500?
Bonus-Who was the highest placed American?
5) What two NHL teams will be playing their third game for a best of seven to win the Stanely Cup?
Answers
1) Barcelona
2) South Africa Bulls
3) LA Lakers, Orlando Magic
4) Helio Castronovez of Brazil
Bonus – Danica Patrick 3rd
5) Detroit Red-Wings, Pittsburgh Penguins
Literature
1) What reclusive author has been baited into some heavy litigation over the use of his intellectual property rights of his character Holden Caulfield by a first time novelist?
2) Author Christopher Paolini wrote what novel (the beginning of a series) at the age of 15?
3) What Novel by Paulo Coelho was originally written in Portuguese and is, according to the Guiness Book of World Records, the most translated book by a living author? And one of the best-selling novels of all time?
4) What book by John Stewart and the cast of the daily show is one of the top 150 best selling fiction books of the past 15 years?
5) Although the HP series is done, JK Rowling had a book on Amazon’s best seller list for 2008. What was it?
Answers
1) JD Salinger
2) Eragon – Inheritance series
3) The Alchemist
4) America (the book)
5) Tales of the Beedlebard
David Bowie
1) To who is David Bowie married?
2) In the Labyrinth, what was the name of Bowie’s character?
Bonus – Who directed the Labyrinth?
3) The life Aquatic with steve Zissou featured david bowie songs sung in Portuguese by what artist?
4) Bowie achieved crossover success onto the American charts with his song, Fame, which was co-written by what famous artist?
5) David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” album was a major stepping stone for what blues guitar virtuoso who is featured heavily on the album?
Answers
1) Iman Abdulmajid
2) Jareth
Bonus – Jim Henson
3) Seu Jeorge
4) John Lennon
5) Stevie Ray Vaughan
This week in History
1) On june 1, 1204 King Phillip Augustus of France conquered what French city which is also the city where Joan of Arc was burnt to death in may 30th 1431?
2) On june 1 1812, President James Madison asked the congress to declare war on what country?
3) Today in 2004, what contestant began his 74 game winning streak on Jeopardy?
4) June 5th 1968 Robert F. Kennedy was shot and died the following day by whom?
5) On June 1 2008, what Algerian born French fashion designer died of Brain Cancer? Earlier this year there was a lot of hub-bub about the auction of his possessions.
Answers
1) Rouen
2) Britain
3) Ken Jennings
4) Sirhan Sirhan
5) Yves Saint Laurent
Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego
INTERPOL NEWS FLASH! A national treasure, the great pyramid of Giza, has been stolen from Egypt! You have till five pm Sunday to find and arrest the thief!
1) Your sources tell you that your suspect was planning on buying stock in Nokia, and studying the influence of 1980’s glam rock pioneering group Hanoi Rocks on the American Band Guns’n’roses. Where is she headed?
2) Your suspect was looking for a copy of Darwin’s Origin of Species and speaking of researching the endemic marine Iguana.
3) Your suspect was seen exchanging all of her cash into Bahts and speaking of wanting to shop in Siam Square for more fashionable clothing.
4) A local detective saw your suspect reading a brochure about Saint Basil’s Cathedral and the Kremlin. Where is she headed?
5) Your suspect was seen wearing a winter Olympics 2006 t-shirt and a FIAT hat. Where is your suspect heading?
Answers
1) Finland
2) Galapagos Islands
3) Bangkok, Thailand
4) Moscow
5) Turin/Torino
Famous movie quotes
1) “Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.”
2) “Get Busy livin or get busy dyin. (That’s god damned right)”
3) “Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye. »
4) “Hasta La Vista, Baby.”
5)” I can't believe I gave my panties to a geek.”
Answers
1) Casablanca
2) Shawshank Redemption
3) 2001 Space Odyssey
4) Terminator 2
5) 16 candles
Random
1) Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly shot JFK from the 6th story of what building?
2) Skull and bones is a secret society from what Ivy League school?
3) What was the real name of the Orca who played Willy in Free Willy?
4) Almost Famous is Cameron Crowe’s account of working for what magazine?
5) Our president is the first to have two grammy’s while in office. What did he receive them for?
Answers
1) The Texas School Book Depository
2) Yale
3) Keiko
4) Rolling Stone
5) Spoken word album, dreams of my father, audacity of hope
Science
1) What noble gas is represented by the letters Ar?
2) Dolphins have extremely good eyesight, but to find prey they primarily use their sense of sound (or rather vibration sensing) like a radar. This sense is also known as what?
3) Which of the following has been used as an active ingredient in Nail polish remover?
a) ethanol b) acetone c) Limonene
4) Vulcans, like some mollusks have green blood. This is because they have a different oxidizing agent than humans. What is the oxidizing agent that makes blood green?
5) Flowering plants, or angiosperms, while making up a majority of the plants alive today haven’t been around that long. They first appeared during the same period that the T-rex, Triceratops and Pteradon lived. In what period of the Mesozoic did flowering plants appear?
Answers
1) Argon
2) Echolocation
3) a) acetone
4) Copper
5) Cretaceous
Cover Songs
1) Who first performed and wrote Aretha Franklin’s RESPECT?
2) The Jimi Hendrix Experience covered All Along the Watchtower originally written and performed by whom?
3) What famous country singer did a cover of NIN’s “Hurt”?
4) Though co-written by Bowie, China girl was originally performed by whom?
5) Limp Bizkit destroyed what Who song when they did a horribly atrocious cover?
Answers
1) Otis Redding
2) Bob Dylan
3) Johnny Cash
4) Iggy Pop
5) Behind Blue Eyes
1) Conan O’brian took over the tonight show this week, for which he had to move to where?
Bonus – Who is the leader of the Conan’s Tonight Show band?
2) Which motor vehicle producer – the second largest in the world – filed for bankruptcy this week?
3) An Airplane disappeared while making its voyage across the Atlantic, which airline was the plane from?
4) Kim Jong-Il named who was to be his successor as the leader of the North Korean Communist State. Who did he name?
5) A Doctor, George Tiller was shot dead in a church this past weekend. He was targeted because he is one of the few doctors in the country that will perform what procedure?
Answers
1) LA
Bonus – Max Weinberg
2) GM
3) Air France
4) His son – Kim Jong-Un
5) late term Abortion
Sports - Finals
1) What team won the Champions league final last Wednesday?
2) What team won the Super-14 rugby championship?
3) The NBA Finals will be taking place later this week. Which two teams will be competing?
4) Who won the Indy 500?
Bonus-Who was the highest placed American?
5) What two NHL teams will be playing their third game for a best of seven to win the Stanely Cup?
Answers
1) Barcelona
2) South Africa Bulls
3) LA Lakers, Orlando Magic
4) Helio Castronovez of Brazil
Bonus – Danica Patrick 3rd
5) Detroit Red-Wings, Pittsburgh Penguins
Literature
1) What reclusive author has been baited into some heavy litigation over the use of his intellectual property rights of his character Holden Caulfield by a first time novelist?
2) Author Christopher Paolini wrote what novel (the beginning of a series) at the age of 15?
3) What Novel by Paulo Coelho was originally written in Portuguese and is, according to the Guiness Book of World Records, the most translated book by a living author? And one of the best-selling novels of all time?
4) What book by John Stewart and the cast of the daily show is one of the top 150 best selling fiction books of the past 15 years?
5) Although the HP series is done, JK Rowling had a book on Amazon’s best seller list for 2008. What was it?
Answers
1) JD Salinger
2) Eragon – Inheritance series
3) The Alchemist
4) America (the book)
5) Tales of the Beedlebard
David Bowie
1) To who is David Bowie married?
2) In the Labyrinth, what was the name of Bowie’s character?
Bonus – Who directed the Labyrinth?
3) The life Aquatic with steve Zissou featured david bowie songs sung in Portuguese by what artist?
4) Bowie achieved crossover success onto the American charts with his song, Fame, which was co-written by what famous artist?
5) David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” album was a major stepping stone for what blues guitar virtuoso who is featured heavily on the album?
Answers
1) Iman Abdulmajid
2) Jareth
Bonus – Jim Henson
3) Seu Jeorge
4) John Lennon
5) Stevie Ray Vaughan
This week in History
1) On june 1, 1204 King Phillip Augustus of France conquered what French city which is also the city where Joan of Arc was burnt to death in may 30th 1431?
2) On june 1 1812, President James Madison asked the congress to declare war on what country?
3) Today in 2004, what contestant began his 74 game winning streak on Jeopardy?
4) June 5th 1968 Robert F. Kennedy was shot and died the following day by whom?
5) On June 1 2008, what Algerian born French fashion designer died of Brain Cancer? Earlier this year there was a lot of hub-bub about the auction of his possessions.
Answers
1) Rouen
2) Britain
3) Ken Jennings
4) Sirhan Sirhan
5) Yves Saint Laurent
Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego
INTERPOL NEWS FLASH! A national treasure, the great pyramid of Giza, has been stolen from Egypt! You have till five pm Sunday to find and arrest the thief!
1) Your sources tell you that your suspect was planning on buying stock in Nokia, and studying the influence of 1980’s glam rock pioneering group Hanoi Rocks on the American Band Guns’n’roses. Where is she headed?
2) Your suspect was looking for a copy of Darwin’s Origin of Species and speaking of researching the endemic marine Iguana.
3) Your suspect was seen exchanging all of her cash into Bahts and speaking of wanting to shop in Siam Square for more fashionable clothing.
4) A local detective saw your suspect reading a brochure about Saint Basil’s Cathedral and the Kremlin. Where is she headed?
5) Your suspect was seen wearing a winter Olympics 2006 t-shirt and a FIAT hat. Where is your suspect heading?
Answers
1) Finland
2) Galapagos Islands
3) Bangkok, Thailand
4) Moscow
5) Turin/Torino
Famous movie quotes
1) “Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.”
2) “Get Busy livin or get busy dyin. (That’s god damned right)”
3) “Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye. »
4) “Hasta La Vista, Baby.”
5)” I can't believe I gave my panties to a geek.”
Answers
1) Casablanca
2) Shawshank Redemption
3) 2001 Space Odyssey
4) Terminator 2
5) 16 candles
Random
1) Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly shot JFK from the 6th story of what building?
2) Skull and bones is a secret society from what Ivy League school?
3) What was the real name of the Orca who played Willy in Free Willy?
4) Almost Famous is Cameron Crowe’s account of working for what magazine?
5) Our president is the first to have two grammy’s while in office. What did he receive them for?
Answers
1) The Texas School Book Depository
2) Yale
3) Keiko
4) Rolling Stone
5) Spoken word album, dreams of my father, audacity of hope
Science
1) What noble gas is represented by the letters Ar?
2) Dolphins have extremely good eyesight, but to find prey they primarily use their sense of sound (or rather vibration sensing) like a radar. This sense is also known as what?
3) Which of the following has been used as an active ingredient in Nail polish remover?
a) ethanol b) acetone c) Limonene
4) Vulcans, like some mollusks have green blood. This is because they have a different oxidizing agent than humans. What is the oxidizing agent that makes blood green?
5) Flowering plants, or angiosperms, while making up a majority of the plants alive today haven’t been around that long. They first appeared during the same period that the T-rex, Triceratops and Pteradon lived. In what period of the Mesozoic did flowering plants appear?
Answers
1) Argon
2) Echolocation
3) a) acetone
4) Copper
5) Cretaceous
Cover Songs
1) Who first performed and wrote Aretha Franklin’s RESPECT?
2) The Jimi Hendrix Experience covered All Along the Watchtower originally written and performed by whom?
3) What famous country singer did a cover of NIN’s “Hurt”?
4) Though co-written by Bowie, China girl was originally performed by whom?
5) Limp Bizkit destroyed what Who song when they did a horribly atrocious cover?
Answers
1) Otis Redding
2) Bob Dylan
3) Johnny Cash
4) Iggy Pop
5) Behind Blue Eyes
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
So, this week was fun! Slow for Talula, but two new teams for trivia, so we made up for it.
For trivia this week we had a picture section, but I'll post that later. I need to head back to Talula for the arbeit now.
the answers are in white so highlight the area after the "Answers" to see the answers.
This week in History
1) What militant abolitionist is thought to have participated in the killing of five pro-slavery settlers in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856?
2) The impeachment trial of what president came to an end in 1868, having been found not guilty by one vote?
3) What bridge was opened to pedestrian traffic in 1937 as the world’s longest suspension bridge at the time, but has since been surpassed by 8 other bridges?
4) What Julliard trained actor was paralyzed from the neck down after a horseback riding accident?
5) What State was entered into the Union as the 30th state in 1848? May 29th
Answers
1) John Brown
2) Andrew Johnson
3) The Golden Gate
4) Christopher Reeve
5) Wisconsin!
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
INTERPOL NEWS FLASH! A national treasure, the Night Watch by Rembrandt, has been stolen from the Rijksmuseum! You have till five pm Sunday to find and arrest the thief!
*bonus* where is the Rijksmuseum?
1) Guards say they saw a suspicious brown haired lady speaking about visiting the source of the Nile and the tallest mountain in Africa. Which country is she headed to?
2) Your suspect was overheard practicing conversational Spanish and preparing to bird watch in what she said was the most biologically diverse country in the world. She might be headed there because of its lack of armed forces which were abolished after the 1949 Civil war.
3) Other bird watchers said they saw a tall woman reading a academic article about Quipus and speaking quechua. Others overheard her trying to find a guide to the “lost city of the Incas”. Where is she going?
4) A local detective spotted your suspect planning a study of the recently uncovered iconography at Hagia Sophia in the former capital of the Ottoman Empire. Where is she headed?
5)Your sources tell you that a woman was seen changing all of her money to Wons and speaking of visiting the headquarters of Samsung. Where is she headed?
Answers
*bonus* The Netherlands
1) Tanzania
2) Costa Rica
3) Machu Pichu, Peru
4) Istanbul, Turkey
5) Seoul, South Korea
Current events
1) Obama finally named his choice for the vacant supreme court position. Administration officials said this woman would bring more judicial experience to the court than any justice confirmed in the past 70 years. Whom did he choose?
*bonus* Which justice will she be replacing?
2) What county successfully tested a nuclear bomb this week?
3) A 47 year old never-been-kissed shocked what british talent show when she sang better than any karaoke singer you’ve ever heard? And shocked american’s when Simon Cowell actually apologized for the way he spoke to her.
*bonus* What is the woman’s name?
4)What oil company is going to trial on Friday for its alleged human rights abuses. Specifically their involvement with the hanging of Ken Saro-Wiwa the founder and leader of MOSOP(Movement for the survival of the Ogoni people).
5) Scientist in Oslo have gone public with a fossil that they believe is the missing link in human evolution. Where was Ida the lemur human ancestor found?
Answers
1) Sonia Sotomayor
*Bonus* David Souter
2) North Korea
3) Britain’s got talent
*Bonus* Susan Boyle
4) Shell
5) Germany, Frankfurt
Baseball
1) What nation has the most Olympic medals in Baseball?
2) Who was the first to pitch a perfect game for a world series?
*Bonus* What year?
3) Who holds the highest career batting average?
4) Who was the first team that Hank Aaron played for?
5) Who has played the most consecutive games in baseball?
Answers
1) Cuba
2) Don Larsen
*bonus* 1956
3) Ty Cobb
4) Milwaukee Braves
5) Cal Ripkin Jr
One hit wonders
1) In the Tommy Tutone song, what is Jenny’s number?
2) What group declared, “it’s raining men”?
3) What was Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s big song that was used in Zoolander to help hypnotize Derek into killing the prime minster?
*Bonus* Prime minister of what country?
4) Who told the white boy to play that funky music?
5) Sir Mix-a-lot had his one hit wonder with what song about a certain part of the female anatomy?
Answers
1) 8675309
2) The Weather Girls
3) Relax
*bonus* Malaysia
4) Wild Cherry
5) Baby Got Back
Losers
1) Which republican primary loser returned to his prior acting career in a guest appearance on Life on Mars?
2) Which AFL team is the only to win four consecutive AFL championships, but lose all four superbowls?
*Bonus* Which other two teams have lost four Super Bowls?
3) Beck’s song “Loser” is from what album?
4) Adam Lambert, American Idol loser is in a feud with what other 2003 American Idol loser who said Lambert’s singing made his ears bleed?
5) France has a long history of losing wars… What colony did France lose to Toussaint L’Ouverture and other rebels?
Answers
1) Fred Thompson
2) Buffalo Bills
*Bonus* Vikings Broncos
3) Mellow Gold
4) Clay Aiken
5) Haiti
Random
1) Alcohol is from what language?
2) Norma McCorvey was the anonymous woman behind what important supreme court case?
3) What was Julius Henry Marx best known for?
4)Freemen Godsen and Charles Corell stared in what situational comedy radio program based on stereotypes of African Americans?
5) What was U2’s first album?
Answers
1) Arabic
2) Roe vs. Wade
3)The character Groucho Marx
4) Amos n Andy
5) Boy
What have they done for me lately? The Beatles
1) Photojournalist just released pictures for the first time of John and Yoko doing what forty years ago?
2) Paul McCartney is set to collaborate with what legendary American rocker this summer?
3) It seems the summer blockbusters are all about bro-mance. The writers of what recently released movie claim that the friendship between the main characters is based on the friendship of John and Paul? Two very different people who bonded because they shared such a large loss so early in life?
4) What car celebrated its 50th birthday by producing a contemporary version of George Harrison’s pimped out version of the 1966 model of the car? All four of the beatles were given this model car by their manager.
5) What is the name of Ringo Starr’s band?
Answers
1) Staging a bed-in for peace- Accepted “protesting”
2) Bob Dylan
3) Star Trek, Spock and Kirk
4) Mini Cooper
5) All- Starr band
Epigraphs of novels
1)
One flew east, one flew west,
One flew
2) The Epigraph to Chinua Achebe’s Things fall apart:
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart, the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
was written by whom?
*Bonus* What hip-hop group has an album titled “Things fall apart”?
3) What famous crime novel begins, “Behind every great fortune there is a crime”?
4) This island of Pianosa lies in the Mediterranean Sea eight miles south of Elba. It is very small and obviously could not accommodate all of the actions described. Like the setting of this novel, the characters, too, are fictitious.
5) If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. - – Juan Ramón Jiménez Novel by Ray Bradbury
Answers
1) One flew over the Cuckoo’s nest
2) WB Yeats, The second Coming
*Bonus* The Roots
3) The god father
4) Catch 22
5) Fahrenheit 451
For trivia this week we had a picture section, but I'll post that later. I need to head back to Talula for the arbeit now.
the answers are in white so highlight the area after the "Answers" to see the answers.
This week in History
1) What militant abolitionist is thought to have participated in the killing of five pro-slavery settlers in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856?
2) The impeachment trial of what president came to an end in 1868, having been found not guilty by one vote?
3) What bridge was opened to pedestrian traffic in 1937 as the world’s longest suspension bridge at the time, but has since been surpassed by 8 other bridges?
4) What Julliard trained actor was paralyzed from the neck down after a horseback riding accident?
5) What State was entered into the Union as the 30th state in 1848? May 29th
Answers
1) John Brown
2) Andrew Johnson
3) The Golden Gate
4) Christopher Reeve
5) Wisconsin!
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
INTERPOL NEWS FLASH! A national treasure, the Night Watch by Rembrandt, has been stolen from the Rijksmuseum! You have till five pm Sunday to find and arrest the thief!
*bonus* where is the Rijksmuseum?
1) Guards say they saw a suspicious brown haired lady speaking about visiting the source of the Nile and the tallest mountain in Africa. Which country is she headed to?
2) Your suspect was overheard practicing conversational Spanish and preparing to bird watch in what she said was the most biologically diverse country in the world. She might be headed there because of its lack of armed forces which were abolished after the 1949 Civil war.
3) Other bird watchers said they saw a tall woman reading a academic article about Quipus and speaking quechua. Others overheard her trying to find a guide to the “lost city of the Incas”. Where is she going?
4) A local detective spotted your suspect planning a study of the recently uncovered iconography at Hagia Sophia in the former capital of the Ottoman Empire. Where is she headed?
5)Your sources tell you that a woman was seen changing all of her money to Wons and speaking of visiting the headquarters of Samsung. Where is she headed?
Answers
*bonus* The Netherlands
1) Tanzania
2) Costa Rica
3) Machu Pichu, Peru
4) Istanbul, Turkey
5) Seoul, South Korea
Current events
1) Obama finally named his choice for the vacant supreme court position. Administration officials said this woman would bring more judicial experience to the court than any justice confirmed in the past 70 years. Whom did he choose?
*bonus* Which justice will she be replacing?
2) What county successfully tested a nuclear bomb this week?
3) A 47 year old never-been-kissed shocked what british talent show when she sang better than any karaoke singer you’ve ever heard? And shocked american’s when Simon Cowell actually apologized for the way he spoke to her.
*bonus* What is the woman’s name?
4)What oil company is going to trial on Friday for its alleged human rights abuses. Specifically their involvement with the hanging of Ken Saro-Wiwa the founder and leader of MOSOP(Movement for the survival of the Ogoni people).
5) Scientist in Oslo have gone public with a fossil that they believe is the missing link in human evolution. Where was Ida the lemur human ancestor found?
Answers
1) Sonia Sotomayor
*Bonus* David Souter
2) North Korea
3) Britain’s got talent
*Bonus* Susan Boyle
4) Shell
5) Germany, Frankfurt
Baseball
1) What nation has the most Olympic medals in Baseball?
2) Who was the first to pitch a perfect game for a world series?
*Bonus* What year?
3) Who holds the highest career batting average?
4) Who was the first team that Hank Aaron played for?
5) Who has played the most consecutive games in baseball?
Answers
1) Cuba
2) Don Larsen
*bonus* 1956
3) Ty Cobb
4) Milwaukee Braves
5) Cal Ripkin Jr
One hit wonders
1) In the Tommy Tutone song, what is Jenny’s number?
2) What group declared, “it’s raining men”?
3) What was Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s big song that was used in Zoolander to help hypnotize Derek into killing the prime minster?
*Bonus* Prime minister of what country?
4) Who told the white boy to play that funky music?
5) Sir Mix-a-lot had his one hit wonder with what song about a certain part of the female anatomy?
Answers
1) 8675309
2) The Weather Girls
3) Relax
*bonus* Malaysia
4) Wild Cherry
5) Baby Got Back
Losers
1) Which republican primary loser returned to his prior acting career in a guest appearance on Life on Mars?
2) Which AFL team is the only to win four consecutive AFL championships, but lose all four superbowls?
*Bonus* Which other two teams have lost four Super Bowls?
3) Beck’s song “Loser” is from what album?
4) Adam Lambert, American Idol loser is in a feud with what other 2003 American Idol loser who said Lambert’s singing made his ears bleed?
5) France has a long history of losing wars… What colony did France lose to Toussaint L’Ouverture and other rebels?
Answers
1) Fred Thompson
2) Buffalo Bills
*Bonus* Vikings Broncos
3) Mellow Gold
4) Clay Aiken
5) Haiti
Random
1) Alcohol is from what language?
2) Norma McCorvey was the anonymous woman behind what important supreme court case?
3) What was Julius Henry Marx best known for?
4)Freemen Godsen and Charles Corell stared in what situational comedy radio program based on stereotypes of African Americans?
5) What was U2’s first album?
Answers
1) Arabic
2) Roe vs. Wade
3)The character Groucho Marx
4) Amos n Andy
5) Boy
What have they done for me lately? The Beatles
1) Photojournalist just released pictures for the first time of John and Yoko doing what forty years ago?
2) Paul McCartney is set to collaborate with what legendary American rocker this summer?
3) It seems the summer blockbusters are all about bro-mance. The writers of what recently released movie claim that the friendship between the main characters is based on the friendship of John and Paul? Two very different people who bonded because they shared such a large loss so early in life?
4) What car celebrated its 50th birthday by producing a contemporary version of George Harrison’s pimped out version of the 1966 model of the car? All four of the beatles were given this model car by their manager.
5) What is the name of Ringo Starr’s band?
Answers
1) Staging a bed-in for peace- Accepted “protesting”
2) Bob Dylan
3) Star Trek, Spock and Kirk
4) Mini Cooper
5) All- Starr band
Epigraphs of novels
1)
One flew east, one flew west,
One flew
2) The Epigraph to Chinua Achebe’s Things fall apart:
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart, the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
was written by whom?
*Bonus* What hip-hop group has an album titled “Things fall apart”?
3) What famous crime novel begins, “Behind every great fortune there is a crime”?
4) This island of Pianosa lies in the Mediterranean Sea eight miles south of Elba. It is very small and obviously could not accommodate all of the actions described. Like the setting of this novel, the characters, too, are fictitious.
5) If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. - – Juan Ramón Jiménez Novel by Ray Bradbury
Answers
1) One flew over the Cuckoo’s nest
2) WB Yeats, The second Coming
*Bonus* The Roots
3) The god father
4) Catch 22
5) Fahrenheit 451
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Next week in Trivia
As usual, next week we will be featuring:
This week in History
Current Events
What have they done for me lately *New Category to be a weekly feature
Geography/Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego *New Category to be a weekly feature
The audience choices for next week:
Baseball
One Hit Wonders
If I decide the other four categories before sunday (when I plan to finish the questions) I will post them. If not, it will remain a mystery until tuesday when you come in.
This week in History
Current Events
What have they done for me lately *New Category to be a weekly feature
Geography/Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego *New Category to be a weekly feature
The audience choices for next week:
Baseball
One Hit Wonders
If I decide the other four categories before sunday (when I plan to finish the questions) I will post them. If not, it will remain a mystery until tuesday when you come in.
May 16th Trivia
So, this week Raine/Neil/Margo won trivia. Hard core fun times!
They won with 37 points! A record at Talula!
Here are the questions from this past trivia and the answers immediately after in white, so you can see them if you highlight.
Sidekicks
1) The lone ranger was one of ABC’s first hits in the 1950’s. Who is the lone ranger’s sidekick?
2) On home improvement Tim Taylor had a sidekick who was much more adept than he. What was his name?
3) Villians can have sidekicks too! What sidekick and would be girl friend was introduced in Batman the Animated Series as a companion to the Joker?
*Bonus* When the first robin left Batman, he assumed a new identity to fight crime. What was his new name?
4) What is the name of Mario’s sidekick/ride?
5) Who is Johnny Quest’s side kick with telekinetic powers? Sim-sim-salabim!
Answers (in white, highlight to see):
1) Tonto
2) Al Borland
3) Harley Quinn
*Bonus* Night Wing
4) Yoshi
5) Hadji
Sci-Fi Films
1)What is Godzilla’s name in Japanese?
*Bonus* What was Godzilla's first film in Color?
2) In the 1986 version of the fly, as the main character starts to morph into a combination of a human and a fly he calls his new merged form what?
3) Predator starred two future Governors. Who are they?
4) In the film Contact, SETI receives a signal from a distant star. Scientist eventually decode it. What does it contain?
*bonus* Contact is based on a book of the same name by what author?
5) In planet of the apes, the apes are divided into strict class system. What position do the Gorilla’s take?
Answers-
1)Gojira *Combo of Gorira (Gorilla) and Kujira (whale)
*Bonus* King Kong Vs Godzilla
2) Brundlefly
3) Jesse Ventura and Arnold Schwarzenegger
4) Plans to build something. (A ship/wormholecreater/fwt?)
*Bonus* Carl Sagan
5) Military/Police/Hunters
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
INTERPOL NEWS FLASH! A national treasure, the Stephen Colbert Portrait, has been stolen from Washington DC! You have till five pm Sunday to find and arrest the thief!
1)Your sources at the Smithsonian tell you that a suspicious woman changed all of her money to Rands and spoke loudly about wanting to visit the Limpopo river. Where is your suspect headed?
2)Your suspect was overheard talking about geography of the Iberian peninsula and wanting to punch Luis Figo in his damned face because of how dirty their whole team played, but especially for his headbutt against dutch player van bronckhorst in the last world cup. Where is your suspect heading?
3)A local detective spotted your suspect wearing an impressive ruby neckless btw, and planning on a field study of orangutangs. She was also spotting reading the Koran.
4)Your sources tell you that they witnessed a brown haired woman speaking Urdu and practicing conversational phrases such as, “I like to play tennis”. She also spoke of scaling K2.
5)Your suspect was seen driving away from a library in a convertible waving a red white and blue flag. She also checked out a book on monotremes.
Answers
1)South Africa
2)Portugal
3)Indonesia
4)Pakistan
5)Australia
Current Events
1) What Belgian town has claimed to be the first European town to not eat meat for one day of the week every week? In an effort to combat cruelty to animals, obesity and global Warming?
2) Craigslist is being forced to close what category of its web listings?
3) A new study found that the air of what capital city is laced with at least five different drugs, the most prominent being Cocaine. The others are LSD, Opiates, Amphetamines and Cannaboids.
4) What government declared victory in a civil war against the Tamil Tigers?
5) What horse won the Preakness this past weekend?
*Bonus* Her jockey became the first in history to win the first to jewels of the triple crown on different mounts. What was his name?
Answers
1) Ghent
2) Adult Services
3) Madrid
4) Sri Lanka
5) Rachel Alexandra
*Bonus* Calvin Borel
This Week in History
1) In 1939 the Princeton Tigers played the Colombian Lions on the first ever televised sporting event. What sport did they face off at?
2) In 1896 The US supreme court ruled on Plessy vs. Ferguson which decided what?
3) May 19th, 1946 is the birthday of what French wrestler?
4) May 20th 1932, What woman embarked on what was to become the first around the world solo flight by a woman?
*Bonus* Who was the first man to make that flight? Embarking on the same day just five years earlier?
5) In 1936 what airline was founded by the Irish Government as the official airline of Ireland?
Answers
1) Baseball
2) Separate But Equal is Constitutional
3) Andre the Giant
4) Emilia Earhart
*Bonus* Charles Lindberg
5) Aer Lingus
Sports - Retired Numbers
1) Hank Aaron held the record for most career homeruns for 33 years until being surpassed by Barry Bonds in 2007. What was his number?
2) Reggie White was named all-pro 13 of his 15 seasons. His number was retired by both the packers and the eagles. What was his number?
3) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar holds the NBA career record for most points, and minutes played. What is his number?
4) What was Babe Ruth’s number?
5) The Seattle Seahawks retired the number 12 in 1984. Whose jersey number is it?
Answers
1) 44
2) 92
3) 33
4) 3
5) The 12th man - The Fans
What have they Done for me Lately? Star Trek!
1) A spinoff of the practice, Boston Legal has four former Star Trek actors on it. Who are they?
2) This next question is easy, because he is my personal hero, so I’ll give you all a point. What member of TNG also hosted a children’s tv show promoting literacy?
3) What two actors reprised their roles of TOS in the new film? Hint: One of the two has been involved in every reincarnation of Star Trek thus far.
4) What former star trek actor is now the spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign “Coming Out Project”?
5) Many former Star Trek stars do a lot of Voice acting now adays. Who voices CIA Deputy Director Avery Bullock on American Dad?
*Bonus: Who voiced I.M. Weasel?
Answers
1) William Shatner (Kirk), Rene Auberjonois (Odo), Armin Shimmerman (Quark), Ethan Phillips (Neelix)
2) LeVar Burton
3) Leonard Nemoy (Spock, duh) and Majel Barrett (The Voice of the Ship's Computer. She died last year but had finished all the voice work to the film a month before passing.)
4) George Takei
5) Patrick Stewart
*bonus* Michael Dorn
Science
1) What is the SI unit for current, named after a French mathematician who also made important contributions to chemistry?
2) What is the SI unit for electrical resistance, named after a German Physicist?
3) The SI unit of force was named after what English Scientist in recognition of his work Classical Mechanics?
4) What is the SI derived unit of density?
5) The SI unit for thermodynamic temperature is what?
Answers
1)Ampere
2) Ohm
3) Newton
4) Kilogram/m^3
5) Kelvin
Literature
1) What is the name of Harry Potter’s defense against the dark arts teacher in The Prisoner of Azkaban?
2) Name one of C S Lewis’ books from his Ransom/Space trilogy.
3) My fair lady was inspired by what George Bernard Shaw play?
4) Rosencratz and Guildenstern are from what famous play. That is not Rosenkratz and Guildenstern are dead?
5) My favorite piece of poetry ever, “White man’s burden” was written by what English Poet?
Answers
1) Professor Lupin
2) Out of Silent Planet, Perelandria, That Hideous Strength
3) Pygmalion
4) Hamlet
5) Rudyard Kipling
Random
1) What does CV stand for?
2) In 1945, this African-American US Army Lieutenant refused to move to the back of a military transport bus when told to by a driver whom he outranked. He was court martialled, won his case, and thus sped the process of military integration. However, you probably know him better for his integration of major league baseball.
3) Whose tombstone credits him with being the "author of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom" and as "Founder of the University of Virginia", but does not mention that he was the third President of the United States?
4) The term "heavy metal" was first commonly used to describe this band, perhaps best known for the song "Stairway to Heaven".
5) Who was the first president to be born outside of the thirteen original colonies?
Answers
1) Curriculum Vitae
2) Jackie Robinson
3) Thomas Jefferson
4) Led Zeppelin
5) Lincoln
They won with 37 points! A record at Talula!
Here are the questions from this past trivia and the answers immediately after in white, so you can see them if you highlight.
Sidekicks
1) The lone ranger was one of ABC’s first hits in the 1950’s. Who is the lone ranger’s sidekick?
2) On home improvement Tim Taylor had a sidekick who was much more adept than he. What was his name?
3) Villians can have sidekicks too! What sidekick and would be girl friend was introduced in Batman the Animated Series as a companion to the Joker?
*Bonus* When the first robin left Batman, he assumed a new identity to fight crime. What was his new name?
4) What is the name of Mario’s sidekick/ride?
5) Who is Johnny Quest’s side kick with telekinetic powers? Sim-sim-salabim!
Answers (in white, highlight to see):
1) Tonto
2) Al Borland
3) Harley Quinn
*Bonus* Night Wing
4) Yoshi
5) Hadji
Sci-Fi Films
1)What is Godzilla’s name in Japanese?
*Bonus* What was Godzilla's first film in Color?
2) In the 1986 version of the fly, as the main character starts to morph into a combination of a human and a fly he calls his new merged form what?
3) Predator starred two future Governors. Who are they?
4) In the film Contact, SETI receives a signal from a distant star. Scientist eventually decode it. What does it contain?
*bonus* Contact is based on a book of the same name by what author?
5) In planet of the apes, the apes are divided into strict class system. What position do the Gorilla’s take?
Answers-
1)Gojira *Combo of Gorira (Gorilla) and Kujira (whale)
*Bonus* King Kong Vs Godzilla
2) Brundlefly
3) Jesse Ventura and Arnold Schwarzenegger
4) Plans to build something. (A ship/wormholecreater/fwt?)
*Bonus* Carl Sagan
5) Military/Police/Hunters
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
INTERPOL NEWS FLASH! A national treasure, the Stephen Colbert Portrait, has been stolen from Washington DC! You have till five pm Sunday to find and arrest the thief!
1)Your sources at the Smithsonian tell you that a suspicious woman changed all of her money to Rands and spoke loudly about wanting to visit the Limpopo river. Where is your suspect headed?
2)Your suspect was overheard talking about geography of the Iberian peninsula and wanting to punch Luis Figo in his damned face because of how dirty their whole team played, but especially for his headbutt against dutch player van bronckhorst in the last world cup. Where is your suspect heading?
3)A local detective spotted your suspect wearing an impressive ruby neckless btw, and planning on a field study of orangutangs. She was also spotting reading the Koran.
4)Your sources tell you that they witnessed a brown haired woman speaking Urdu and practicing conversational phrases such as, “I like to play tennis”. She also spoke of scaling K2.
5)Your suspect was seen driving away from a library in a convertible waving a red white and blue flag. She also checked out a book on monotremes.
Answers
1)South Africa
2)Portugal
3)Indonesia
4)Pakistan
5)Australia
Current Events
1) What Belgian town has claimed to be the first European town to not eat meat for one day of the week every week? In an effort to combat cruelty to animals, obesity and global Warming?
2) Craigslist is being forced to close what category of its web listings?
3) A new study found that the air of what capital city is laced with at least five different drugs, the most prominent being Cocaine. The others are LSD, Opiates, Amphetamines and Cannaboids.
4) What government declared victory in a civil war against the Tamil Tigers?
5) What horse won the Preakness this past weekend?
*Bonus* Her jockey became the first in history to win the first to jewels of the triple crown on different mounts. What was his name?
Answers
1) Ghent
2) Adult Services
3) Madrid
4) Sri Lanka
5) Rachel Alexandra
*Bonus* Calvin Borel
This Week in History
1) In 1939 the Princeton Tigers played the Colombian Lions on the first ever televised sporting event. What sport did they face off at?
2) In 1896 The US supreme court ruled on Plessy vs. Ferguson which decided what?
3) May 19th, 1946 is the birthday of what French wrestler?
4) May 20th 1932, What woman embarked on what was to become the first around the world solo flight by a woman?
*Bonus* Who was the first man to make that flight? Embarking on the same day just five years earlier?
5) In 1936 what airline was founded by the Irish Government as the official airline of Ireland?
Answers
1) Baseball
2) Separate But Equal is Constitutional
3) Andre the Giant
4) Emilia Earhart
*Bonus* Charles Lindberg
5) Aer Lingus
Sports - Retired Numbers
1) Hank Aaron held the record for most career homeruns for 33 years until being surpassed by Barry Bonds in 2007. What was his number?
2) Reggie White was named all-pro 13 of his 15 seasons. His number was retired by both the packers and the eagles. What was his number?
3) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar holds the NBA career record for most points, and minutes played. What is his number?
4) What was Babe Ruth’s number?
5) The Seattle Seahawks retired the number 12 in 1984. Whose jersey number is it?
Answers
1) 44
2) 92
3) 33
4) 3
5) The 12th man - The Fans
What have they Done for me Lately? Star Trek!
1) A spinoff of the practice, Boston Legal has four former Star Trek actors on it. Who are they?
2) This next question is easy, because he is my personal hero, so I’ll give you all a point. What member of TNG also hosted a children’s tv show promoting literacy?
3) What two actors reprised their roles of TOS in the new film? Hint: One of the two has been involved in every reincarnation of Star Trek thus far.
4) What former star trek actor is now the spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign “Coming Out Project”?
5) Many former Star Trek stars do a lot of Voice acting now adays. Who voices CIA Deputy Director Avery Bullock on American Dad?
*Bonus: Who voiced I.M. Weasel?
Answers
1) William Shatner (Kirk), Rene Auberjonois (Odo), Armin Shimmerman (Quark), Ethan Phillips (Neelix)
2) LeVar Burton
3) Leonard Nemoy (Spock, duh) and Majel Barrett (The Voice of the Ship's Computer. She died last year but had finished all the voice work to the film a month before passing.)
4) George Takei
5) Patrick Stewart
*bonus* Michael Dorn
Science
1) What is the SI unit for current, named after a French mathematician who also made important contributions to chemistry?
2) What is the SI unit for electrical resistance, named after a German Physicist?
3) The SI unit of force was named after what English Scientist in recognition of his work Classical Mechanics?
4) What is the SI derived unit of density?
5) The SI unit for thermodynamic temperature is what?
Answers
1)Ampere
2) Ohm
3) Newton
4) Kilogram/m^3
5) Kelvin
Literature
1) What is the name of Harry Potter’s defense against the dark arts teacher in The Prisoner of Azkaban?
2) Name one of C S Lewis’ books from his Ransom/Space trilogy.
3) My fair lady was inspired by what George Bernard Shaw play?
4) Rosencratz and Guildenstern are from what famous play. That is not Rosenkratz and Guildenstern are dead?
5) My favorite piece of poetry ever, “White man’s burden” was written by what English Poet?
Answers
1) Professor Lupin
2) Out of Silent Planet, Perelandria, That Hideous Strength
3) Pygmalion
4) Hamlet
5) Rudyard Kipling
Random
1) What does CV stand for?
2) In 1945, this African-American US Army Lieutenant refused to move to the back of a military transport bus when told to by a driver whom he outranked. He was court martialled, won his case, and thus sped the process of military integration. However, you probably know him better for his integration of major league baseball.
3) Whose tombstone credits him with being the "author of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom" and as "Founder of the University of Virginia", but does not mention that he was the third President of the United States?
4) The term "heavy metal" was first commonly used to describe this band, perhaps best known for the song "Stairway to Heaven".
5) Who was the first president to be born outside of the thirteen original colonies?
Answers
1) Curriculum Vitae
2) Jackie Robinson
3) Thomas Jefferson
4) Led Zeppelin
5) Lincoln
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Since I'm now done with school, I will be able to devote all my free time to... completely pointless crap! Including doing a blog for trivia. Warning: I may get bored and stop doing this. No promises!
I'm not going to start posting the questions and answers until after next week because apparently blogger hates the new word. Maybe as much as I do!
But for those of you who will see this, which I'm guessing will be... Raine and Neil... Here are some of the topics for next week:
As usual, we will have Current Events and This Week in history. As usual, read the guardian and wiki like an obsessive crazy person and you'll be fine.
Starting this next week I'm starting a hopefully regular segment, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego! It's geography but I make the questions like they did in the old game. Example:
Q: Your sources in Kathmandu tell you that a suspicious woman changed all her money to dollars and spoke loudly about wanting to go over Montmorency Falls in a barrel. Where is your suspect headed?
A:Montreal, Canada
You can practice your Carmen catching skills here:
http://dosdose.com/game/13/where_in_the_world_is_carmen_sandiego/
Its the old DOS game! SWEET!
It's going to be AWESOME!
Then we will also have a sci-fi films category since that is always popular.
And We will be doing Sidekick trivia since that was requested two weeks ago and I forgot to make it last week...
If anything else random comes up, I will post.
I'm not going to start posting the questions and answers until after next week because apparently blogger hates the new word. Maybe as much as I do!
But for those of you who will see this, which I'm guessing will be... Raine and Neil... Here are some of the topics for next week:
As usual, we will have Current Events and This Week in history. As usual, read the guardian and wiki like an obsessive crazy person and you'll be fine.
Starting this next week I'm starting a hopefully regular segment, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego! It's geography but I make the questions like they did in the old game. Example:
Q: Your sources in Kathmandu tell you that a suspicious woman changed all her money to dollars and spoke loudly about wanting to go over Montmorency Falls in a barrel. Where is your suspect headed?
A:Montreal, Canada
You can practice your Carmen catching skills here:
http://dosdose.com/game/13/where_in_the_world_is_carmen_sandiego/
Its the old DOS game! SWEET!
It's going to be AWESOME!
Then we will also have a sci-fi films category since that is always popular.
And We will be doing Sidekick trivia since that was requested two weeks ago and I forgot to make it last week...
If anything else random comes up, I will post.
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