Bull and Bush Trivia 7.26.03

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