June 2004 An Tobar Pub Quiz

SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 2004

An Tobar Pub Quiz 6.12.04

Round One

1. Who’s the black private dick that’s the sex machine with all the chicks?

2. I played a mentally-challenged teen in Gilbert Grape, but what’s really eating me now is the Bush administration, who am I?

3. What conservative who has billed himself as "the epitome of morality and virtue" announced Friday he will be getting his third divorce?

4. For the past how many years has a horse won the first two parts of horse racing’s triple crown, the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, but failed to win the third part, the Belmont?

5. What south central European mountain range wraps northeasterly from the Gulf of Genoa in the Mediterranean Sea to as far as Vienna, Austria?

6. What is this month’s birthstone? (hint: this month is June)

7. Who is doing the voice of Garfield in Garfield: The Movie?

8. Upon dying in a rebellion in 1877 the Japanese soldier-hero Saigo Takamori came to be known as what?

9. What serial killer, who claimed a dog told him to go on a killing spree in New York in 1977, was denied parole this week (give name or nickname)?

10. To whom is Jennifer Lopez currently married?

Round Two

1. Ronald Reagan was a radio announcer for what baseball team during the 1930s?

2. What is the eighth and last rule of Fight Club?

3. The Flatback, the Green, the Hawksbill, and the Loggerhead are all types of what?

4. How many presidents have had exactly four letters in their last names?

5. The Abel Prize, the Fields Medal, but not the Nobel Prize are all awarded for excellence in what area of study?

H6. What are the two competing newspapers is Harry Potter’s wizarding world?

G6. What glamorous actress, who died in nearby Casselberry, Florida, in the year 2000, had a filmography which included Dishonored Lady, Ecstacy, and Samson and Delilah?

H7. What is Harry Potter’s birthdate (month and date, please)?

G7. In what movie did Frank Sinatra win an Oscar for best supporting actor?

H8. In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, where did Harry and Cho go to eat on Valentine’s Day?

G8. What spacecraft has reached the moon of Phoebe and will enter Saturn’s orbit this month?

H9. What is Professor Grubbly-Plank’s first name?

G9. What was Ray Charles’ full name?

H10. What were the very last three words of the movie Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban?

G10. The voice, head, hand, but never the face of multi-billioinaire John Beresford Tipton would appear on what TV show originally aired on CBS from 1955–1960?

Round Three

1. When the clock strikes midnight tonight what two cute, young actresses will be turning 18? (The moment internet websites have been counting down for years is finally upon us.)

2. How many U.S. states border the Mississippi River?

3. Who is the Black team captain of the NHL’s Stanley Cup runner-up Calgary Flames?

4. Spell ‘Schenectady’, it’s a city in the state of New York.

5. What did the Air Force’s Project Blue Book study during the 1950s and 60s?

6. The not-so-humble nickname ‘Sun (s-u-n) of the 21st Century’ belongs to what North Korean despot?

7. What does the U.S. Constitution’s 27th Amendment prescribe?

8. What group sings “This Love”? This love has taken its toll on me she said goodbye too many times before…

9. What car was the most stolen in the U.S. during 2003? (the make of car will be sufficient) (hint: the least stolen—that was the Batmobile)

Question 10 Latin or Ebonics

L10. What does the Latin phrase ‘casus belli’ (pronounce KAH-sus-BELL-ee) mean (spell words)?

E10. What does the Ebonics phrase "Hey lemme hold some ends I’ll hit you back on dee first my brother" mean?

Bonus

1. What was Merkle’s boner? OK, Specifically, what you need to tell me is how New York Giant first baseman, Fred Merkle, pulled a boner by failing to do what while playing the Cubs during the pennant race of 1908? So the classic baseball question here is: Fred Merkle pulled a boner by failing to do what?

2. One Greek mythological woman had a face that was said to have launched a thousand ships. Another Greek woman’s face would turn any onlooker to stone. Name both mythological women.

3. What three languages was the Bible originally written in?

4. Name the four “lands” of Disneyworld’s Magic Kingdom.

5. Name five of the six most important gases that contribute to the earth’s greenhouse effect.

Tiebreaker

1. In the movie Evil Dead 2, what is the top-most book Ash places on the bucket when covering up his decapitated hand? (admittedly this question is too hard, but the answer is funny)

2. Who was Jernigan Ave. in Orlando named after?

3. Who is the current Libertarian candidate for president?

4. What does the H.G. stand for in H.G. Wells?

5. What new football league will initially consist of only four teams: the Chicago Passion, the Los Angeles Dreams, the New York Euphoria and the Dallas Desire?

Closest to the Pin

(A) How many space shuttle missions have there been?

Round One Answers

1. Shaft

2. Leonardo DiCaprio

3. Rush Limbaugh

4. three

5. Alps

6. Pearl, Alexandrite, or Moonstone

7. Bill Murray

8. The Last Samurai

9. David Berkowitz, or Son of Sam

10. Marc Anthony

Round Two Answers

1. Chicago Cubs

2. If this is your first night at FIGHT CLUB, you HAVE to fight.

3. turtles

4. Five (Polk, Taft, Ford, Bush, and Bush)

5. Mathematics

HP6. The Daily Prophet and The Quibbler

6. Hedy Lamarr

HP7. July 31

7. From Here to Eternity

HP8. Madam Puddifoot’s

8. Cassani

HP9. Wilhelmina

9. Ray Charles Robinson

HP10. "Mischief managed—Not"

10. The Millionaire

Round Three Answers

1. Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen

2. Ten (Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, and Wisconsin)

3. Jarome Iginla [Jarome Iginla shattered hockey's racial stereotypes and led his team to Stanley Cup finals]

4. S-c-h-e-n-e-c-t-a-d-y

5. UFO phenomena or UFOs

6. Kim Jong Il

7. Postpones Representatives’ pay raises until after new elections.

8. Maroon5

9. 1995 Saturn SL

L10. "Occasion of war"

E10. "May I borrow some money"

Bonus Round Answers

1. run to second base

[On September 23, 1908, the score was tied 1 - 1 with two out in the last of the ninth inning at the Polo Grounds. Runners were on first and third base when Al Bridwell singled to center. As the runner on third crossed the plate with the apparent winning run, Fred Merkle jogged towards second base then started for the clubhouse in right field - leaving the basepaths. The Cubs retrieved the ball, tossed it to Johnny Evers who tagged second, and a force out was called ending the game in a tie.]

2. Helen and Medusa

3. Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic

4. Adventureland, Frontierland, Fantasyland, Tomorrowland

5. H20 (water vapor), CO2 (carbon dioxide), CH4 (methane), N20 (nitrous oxide), chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), O3 (ozone) [If you put down halocarbons or the specific halocarbons: hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), perfluorocarbons (PFCs), and sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) I also gave you credit based on the 1997 Kyoto protocol.]

Tiebreaker Answers

1. A Farewell to Arms

2. Aaron Jernigan, Orlando’s first settler

3. Michael Badnarick

4. Herbert George

5. Lingerie Football League

Closest to the Pin Answer

1. 113