April 2004 An Tobar Pub Quiz

SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 2004

An Tobar Pub Quiz 4.17.04

Animal Rollins D-Menace Trivia 04.17.04

Round I

1. Who is known as "the hardest working man in show business" and "the godfather of soul"?

2. Prior to Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, what was the only sequel to win an Oscar for best picture?

3. What is the name of Eminem’s band?

4. Who is British soccer star David Beckham’s wife?

5. Spell the word "rhinoceros".

6. What was so special about the otherwise meaningless Jets-Dolphins game aired on December 20, 1980?

7. Pancuronium bromide, sodium thiopental, and potassium chloride are all drugs used by the government for what?

8. In Norse mythology, a pair of what kind of birds sits on Odin’s shoulders?

9. A gaggle is a flock of what (not in flight)?

10. In what year did the TV show Friends debut? (history is like an amusement park, except instead of rides, you have dates to memorize)

Round II

1. If one million zeros can be written on the front and back of a sheet of paper, how many sheets of paper would it take to write out a googol in standard form?

2. Former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara has a very odd middle name, what is it?

3. The website www.lol.li is a website for what country?

4. What is the capital of Haiti?

5. What Elzie Segar comic strip celebrated its 75th Anniversary this year (2004)?

6. Suggesting it be called "the love or sweetness of Venus" what part of the human anatomy did Renaldus Columbus get credit for discovering in 1559?

7. Who painted Woman with a Pearl Necklace?

8. In what John Knowles novel did character Gene Forrester break his friend Phineas’s leg by shaking him off of a tree branch?

9. Ergophobia is the fear of _____.

10. In Star Trek VI, The Undiscovered Country, what beverage did Captain Kirk note was "no longer to be served at diplomatic functions"?

Round III

1. What new entry to the Oxford English Dictionary is defined as "An unstimulating, low-paid job with few prospects, esp. one created by the expansion of the service sector"[as in fast-food restaurants]?

2. I what movie did Orson Welles’s character, Harry Lime, say,  "In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love — they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."

3. Who holds the U.S. record for number of convictions for murders by a serial killer? (I’ll take his name or his nickname)

4. What musical features the songs Empty Chairs at Empty Tables, Javert’s Suicide, and, most notably, Drink With Me?

5. What were the ancient thieves Dismas and Gestas best-known for?

6. Rosalind Ave in Orlando was named after a character from what Shakespeare play where Orlando was in love with Rosalind?

7. According to Guinness, how tall was the tallest man ever to live? (in feet and inches, please)

8. What Latin American country makes baseballs for the major leagues?

9. Who was the last U.S. president elected who wore a mustache?

10. What ended on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918?

Bonus Round

1. What is the highest-ranking piece in the board game Stratego?

2. Who were the winners of seasons one and two of American Idol?

3. Prior to Jay Leno, who were the three permanent hosts of the Tonight Show?

4. Which teams currently have the highest payrolls in each of the four major sports (Baseball, Football, Basketball, and Hockey)?

5. Which five U.S. states do not use the word evolution in their science curricula?

Tiebreaker

1. Complete this analogy from literature: Hester Prynne : Arthur Dimmesdale :: Lulu Baines : __

2. Who wrote the Pledge of Allegiance in 1892?

3. What team won the CFL’s Grey Cup in 2003?

4. What car (give make and model, please) has an internet ad featuring a cat getting decapitated when its sunroof closes?

5. What is formed when the solar wind strikes the cloudy head of an approaching comet?

Tiebreaker’s tiebreaker (closest to the pin):

According to the UK’s Office for National Statistics what is the dollar value of the whole, entire United Kingdom (as of April 2001)?

Round I Answers

1. James Brown

2. Godfather II

3. D-12

4. Victoria, or Posh Spice

5. r-h-i-n-o-c-e-r-o-s

6. The TV broadcast had no announcers

7. lethal injection

8. Ravens (Huginn and Mumminn)

9. geese

10. 1994

Round II Answers

1. One [there are 100 zeros in a googol, so as large as that number is, it would easily fit on one page given the assumption]

2. Strange

3. Liechtenstein

4. Port-au-Prince

5. Popeye

6. the clitoris (that’s right Columbus discovered not America, but the clitoris)

7. Johannes Vermeer

8. A Separate Peace

9. work

10. Romulan Ale

Round III Answers

1. McJob

2. The Third Man

3. Gary Ridgway or the Green River Killer

4. Les Miserables

5. Being crucified alongside Jesus

6. As You Like It

7. 8'11"

8. Costa Rica

9. William Howard Taft

10. World War I

Bonus Round Answers

1. Marshall

2. Kelly Clarkson and Ruben Studdard

3. Jack Paar, Steve Allen, and Johnny Carson

4. New York Yankees, New Orleans Saints, New York Knicks, and New York Rangers

5. Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Alaska [In June 2005 Alaska's state board of education was pressured by scientists, teachers and concerned citizens to add evolution to science standards that had avoided the topic.]

[Georgia has this disclaimer: "This textbook contains material on evolution. Evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living things. This material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully and critically considered."]

Tiebreaker Answers

1. Elmer Gantry

2. Francis Bellamy

3. Edmonton Eskimos

4. Ford SportKa

5. The comet’s tail

Tiebreaker’s tiebreaker Answer (closest to the pin):

$8,919,570,000,000