SATURDAY, JULY 10, 2004
An Tobar Pub Quiz 7.10.04
Round One
1. Who
wrote this song?
The
Detroit Pistons former champs of basketball
I have
so many souvenirs it’s hard to list them all
I have
Piston pants
I have
Piston shorts
I have
Piston beer mugs
Sometimes
people don’t even notice...
A. Tim
Cavanagh
B. Adam
Sandler
C.
Weird Al Yankovic
2.
Since 1958, where has the Hope Diamond been principally displayed?
3. In
what movie did Marlon Brando’s character say, “I coulda had class. I coulda
been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am,
let's face it.”?
4. Who
wrote the play The Importance of Being Earnest?
5. What
movie inspired Rodney Dangerfield’s famous phrase "I don’t get no
respect"?
6. Did
Ty Cobb bat right-handed or left-handed?
7.
After a decade without one, a new Police Academy movie is currently in the
works, what number Police Academy will it be?
8. The
Roman Catholic doctrine of the Immaculate Conception refers to the conception
of whom?
9. What
was Marilu Henner’s character’s name in the TV show Taxi? (1 point for first
name, 1 point for last name)
10.
WTKS FM 104.1 replaced Howard Stern with seven radio hosts after he was fired.
What is this morning show called?
Round Two
1. What
was the name of the Greek prophetess, who, after avoiding amorous advances from
Apollo, had her gift twisted so that everyone who heard her true foretellings
of future events believed that they were instead hearing lies?
2.
Florida is known as the sunshine state, but actually ranks sixth in number of
clear days per year, what state ranks number one?
3. What
was the name of the first privately developed manned spacecraft?
4. What
politically-incorrect term describes the Shakespeare characters Edmund in King
Lear, Don John in Much Ado About Nothing, Thersites [ther-si-tees] in Troilus
and Cressida, and Philip Falconbridge in King John?
5. In
what John Steinbeck novel did the characters Lenny and George dream of living
off the fat of the land?
H6.
What should you eat when you feel like you’ll never be happy again?
G6.
Dartmouth College is located in what U.S. state?
H7.
What was Gilderoy Lockhart’s autobiography called?
G7.
Unsolicited e-mail is called “spam”, what is “spim”?
H8.
What did the spots on Marietta’s face spell out after she tried to tell
Umbridge what Harry and the others were up to?
G8.
Which former president died while in office five days after getting sick at a
Fourth of July celebration?
H9. In
book four, what is the name of the muggle that Voldemort murdered?
G9. In
the TV show Sergeant Bilko, what was Sergeant Bilko’s first name?
H10. In
book one, what did Fred tell Ron he had to do to get sorted into one of the
Hogwart’s houses?
G10.In
World War II, what did ETO stand for?
Round Three
1. What
was the first United States railroad company?
2.
Dwarf Blue, American Copper, and Little Metalmark are all types of what?
3.
According to recent news reports, and based on the State Farm’s danger index,
what is the most dangerous intersection in Orlando?
4. Who
is the only historical character to appear in both Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure and the 1981 film Time Bandits?
5. The
Crimea Peninsula is at the northern part of what sea?
6.
Spell the word “luau” as in a Hawaiian feast.
7. Chromatophobia
is the fear of what?
8. What
human bone is technically called the coccyx?
9.
Around the bar, what eight-letter word precedes "napkin",
"shaker", "stirrer", and "waitress"?
Question
10: Complete the rhyme, Seuss or Shady.
(one or the other—1 point question)
DR10. I
meant what I said, and I said what I meant.
An
elephant's faithful, _____ _____ _____.
MM 10.
I was playin’ in the beginnin’, the mood all changed
I been
chewed up and spit out and _____ _____ _____.
Bonus Round
1. What
NFL QB started in the most Superbowls?
2. Name
the prime minister of Canada and the president of Mexico.
3. In
the formula e=mc2, what do the letters "e", "m", and
"c" stand for?
4.
Prior to Fahrenheit 911, Academy
Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore directed four movies. Name them.
5. Name
the five members that the Continental Congress in 1776 appointed to form the
committee to write the Declaration of Independence.
Round One Answers
1. Tim
Cavanagh
2. Smithsonian
Institute
3. On the Waterfront
4. Oscar
Wilde
5. The Godfather
6. 8
7. Left-handed
(though he threw right-handed)
8. Mary
9. Elaine
Nardo
10. The
Monsters
Round Two Answers
1. Cassandra
2. Arizona
3.
Spaceship One
4. Bastards
5. Of Mice and Men
HP6.
chocolate
6. New
Hampshire
HP7. Magical Me
7. Unsolicited
instant messages
HP8.
sneak
8.
Zachary Taylor
HP9. Frank
Bryce
9. Ernest
HP10.
Wrestle a troll
10. European
Theatre of Operations
Round Three Answers
1. The
B(altimore) & O(hio) railroad (1830)
2. butterflies
3.
Highway 50 and 436
4. Napoleon
5. Black
Sea
6. l-u-a-u
7. colors
8. tailbone
9. cocktail
DR10. one
hundred percent (Horton Hears a Who)
MM10. booed
off stage
Bonus Round Answers
1. John
Elway
2. Paul
Martin, Vicente Fox
3. energy,
mass, speed of light
4. Roger and Me, Canadian Bacon, The Big One,
and Bowling for Columbine
5. Thomas
Jefferson, John Adams, Ben Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston
