SATURDAY, JULY 26, 2003
Bull and Bush Trivia 7.26.03
ROUND I
1. A
simple math question (while your mind is fresh): What’s two divided by one
half?
2. Who
is the first baseball player listed in the baseball encyclopedia?
3.
Which U.S. President coined the phrase ‘godless communism’?
4. All
three of Elvis Presley’s Grammys were in what category?
5. What
is the American Film Institutes’ number-one-ranked film of all-time?
ROUND II
6. (A
category I like to call Pick the Porn)
Which
of the following is not really a pornographic movie?
Blazing
Straddles
The
Fat, the Bald, and the Ugly
All
Anal on the Western Front
Topless
Brain Surgeons
7. In
what count-try are ‘Chicken Kentucky’ and ‘Pizza Hot’ fast food restaurants?
8. A
dickcissel is what type of animal?
9. What
does a turophile love?
10.
What is a person suffering from triscadecaphobia afraid of?
ROUND III
11. Who
painted the painting Nighthawks?
12. Who
wrote the novel The Prince and the Pauper?
13.
What is the name of Pluto’s moon?
14. On
Star Trek the original series, what was Dr. McCoy’s first name?
15.
What rechtsdreck radio personality avoided serving in the Vietnam War for the
equivalent of an ingrown hair follicle on his ass?
ROUND IV
16.
What U.S. government official said in 2002, ‘The message is that there are
known-knowns—there are things we know that we know. There are
known-unknowns—that is to say, there are things we know that we don’t know.
But, there are also unknown-unknowns—there are things that we do not know we
don’t know, and each year we discover a few more of those unknown-unknowns.’?
17.
What is the collective name for a group of rabbits, mice, or vipers?
18.
What Civil War General refused to use pepper on his food, saying it gave him
pains in his left leg?
19. Who
was the Tampa Bay Buccaneers starting quarterback during their first season in
1976?
20.
What TV show was patterned after the Bull and Finch Pub in Boston?
ROUND V
21. A
ball-busting Bible Question: What Bible character said, ‘Behold…my brother is a
hairy man and I am a smooth man’?
22.
(Speaking of smooth and hairy men) When is Gay Days at Disney (what month)?
23. In
Greek mythology, which deity was known as ‘the rainbow goddess’?
24.
What was the title of Shakespeare’s play about weddings and fairies?
25.
What 2002 summer-hit movie had cameos by both Kevin Spacey and Tom Cruise?
Round VI
26.
(Two-pointer)What are the current New York Times #1 Bestsellers in fiction and
non-fiction (hardcover)?
27.
Rapper Eminem, recently bought a $4.8 million, 29-room mansion in Michigan from
Chuck Conaway, who was the ex-CEO of what company?
28.
What 19th century cartoonist created the two most widely used political symbols
in the United States: the Republican Elephant and the Democratic Donkey? Hint:
when Americans think of Santa Claus, it is also this cartoonist’s vision they
see.
29.
What is the longest muscle in the human body?
30.
What is the capital of North Korea?
ROUND I Answers
1. 4
2. Hank
Aaron (SF Giants 2003 #1 pick David Aardsma had yet to make the majors and gets
his records listed in it—besides, he’s a pitcher.)
3. Harry
S. Truman
4. Gospel
5. Citizen
Kane
ROUND II Answers
6.
Blazing Straddles
7. Iraq
8. a
bird (A sparrowlike bird (Spiza americana) native to southern Ontario and the
central United States, of which the male has a yellow breast marked with a
small black bib on the throat.)
9. cheese
10. The
number 13
ROUND III Answers
11. Edward
Hopper
12. Mark
Twain (Samuel Clemens)
13. Charon
14. Leonard
15. Rush
Limbaugh
ROUND IV Answers
16. Donald
Rumsfeld
17. nest
18.
Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson
19. Steve
Spurrier
20. Cheers
ROUND V Answers
21. Jacob
(Gen. 27.11)
22. June
23. Iris
24. A
Midsummer Night’s Dream
25. Goldmember
ROUND VI Answers
26. Dan
Brown’s The Da Vinci Code and Hillary
Rodham Clinton’s Living History
27. K-Mart
28. Thomas
Nast
29. Sartorius
30. Pyongyang
