SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 2004
An Tobar Pub Quiz 1.10.04
Round I
1.
According to the rappers Outkast, what's cooler than being cool? (this has a
definite two-word answer)
2. What
famous actor is Angelina Jolie's father?
3.
Which NCAA Division I college football team plays its home games at Beaver
Stadium?
4. What
two-word phrase is Chinese for "wind and water"?
5. A
person suffering from ballistophobia is afraid of what?
Round II
1. An
internet question: When you do a Google search on the words 'miserable failure',
what's the first result you get?
2. What
is the late Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow's name? (three names here: first,
middle or maiden, and last name are all needed for credit)
3. What
pro-Ku Klux Klan movie was the first feature length silent?
4. Who
painted Madonna on the Meadow, School of Athens, and The Transfiguration?
5. Who
lives in a pine-apple under the sea, absorbent and yellow and porous is he?
Round III
1. A
CIA killer wants out of the agency, is killed by his boss, goes to hell, and
then makes a deal with the devil to lead the forces of evil in Armageddon in
order to see his wife again. Which comic-book superhero does this describe?
2.
Which Shakespeare play ends with Vincentio the Duke proposing marriage to the
virtuous Isabella, after giving orders for Claudio to marry Juliet, and Lucio
to marry his whore?
3. What
is the smallest U.S. state west of the Mississippi River? (in geographical
area)
4.
Clomicalm is the canine version of what human, prescription drug?
5.
Greek for 'Heaven', he fathered the Titans, who fathered the Greek gods.
Round IV
1.
Ending with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, this war is sometimes considered
by historians to be the last religious war of Western civilization.
2. What
is the capital of Libya?
3. What
was the specific location of zip codes 10047 and 10048?
4. What
TV show's final narration was 'Tuesday, August 29, 1967. The day the running
stopped.'?
5. What
was invented by William P. End? (hint: This is a case where the
inventor's
name fits his invention)
Round V
1.
Which is correct to say, 'The yolk of the egg are white' or, 'The yolk of the
egg is white'?
2. What
actress's real name was Linda Marchiano (although she starred in one well-known
movie, I use the term 'actress' loosely here)?
3. What
bandleader remarked: 'When I go I'm gonna take New Year's Eve with me'?
4. What
animal is known as a polecat?
5. [Prior
to John Kerry in 2004] Who was the last democrat the Orlando Sentinel endorsed
for president?
Bonus~Round VI
1. Who
is the only NFL player to have played for both the undefeated Dolphins of 1972
and the winless Tampa Bay Buccaneers of 1976? (this guy went from 14-0 to 0-14)
2. What
are Siegfried and Roy's last names?
3.
According to the movie Scream, what are the three rules for a character to
survive a slasher flick?
4. What
are the four fundamental forces of nature that the theory of everything seeks
to unify in theoretical physics?
5. What
are the five points of Calvinism as summarized by the acronym TULIP
(T-U-L-I-P)?
Round I Answers
1. Ice
cold
2. Jon
Voight
3. Penn
State Nittany Lions
4. Feng
Shui (pronounced "fung shway")
5. missiles
( I also accepted ammunition, bullets, or guns)
Round II Answers
1. The
biography of George W. Bush at http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/gwbbio.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Google_Bomb_Miserable_Failure.png
2. Coretta
Scott King
3. The
Birth of a Nation
4. Raphael
(Sanzio)
5.
Sponge Bob Square Pants
Round III Answers
1. Spawn
2. Measure
for Measure [It's that classic play that inspired Cliffs Notes on Shakespeare's
Measure for Measure]
3. Hawaii
4. Prozac
5. Uranus
Round IV Answers
1. The
Thirty Years' War [The Hapsburg (Austrian) dynasty, Spain, and the German
Catholic princes vs. France, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, England, and the
German Protestant Princes]
2. Tripoli
3. World
Trade Center
4. The
Fugitive
5. The
Stop Sign
Round V Answers
1. Neither.
[The yolk of the egg is yellow; or, as a copy editor put it more fully: I'd say
either "The yolk of the egg isn't white" or "The yolks of the
eggs aren't white." I'd try to avoid making both of the statements (you
presented).]
2. Linda
Lovelace
3. Guy
Lombardo
4. A
skunk [in the U.S., ferret is Europe but I will take that too]
5. Lyndon
Johnson (1964) Manning Pynn acknowledged this in October 12, 2003's Orlando
Sentinel (he is Public Editor of the Orlando Sentinel, and he ougtht to know)]
Round VI Answers
1. Larry
Ball (LB)
2. Fischbacher,
Horn
3. never
have sex; never drink or do drugs; and, never say 'I'll be right back.'
4. gravity,
the strong nuclear force, the weak nuclear force, and the electromagnetic force
5. Total
Depravity, Unconditional Election, Limited Atonement, Irresistable Grace,
Perseverance of the saints
