An Tobar July 2014 An Tobar Pub Quiz
Round One
1. Who
can take a sunrise, sprinkle it with dew
cover it with chocolate and a miracle
or two?
2. Who
did the voice of Shaggy on the original cartoon series, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!?
3.
Which is larger in area, Brazil or the contiguous United States?
4.
Which country has McDonald's McRib sandwiches year-round?
Australia
France
Germany
Japan
5. When
petroleum refiners invented a process to turn oil into kerosene, what lucrative
by-product did they initially discard?
6. In
public swimming pools, how are the highest percentages of trichloramine and
cyanogen chloride commonly formed?
7. Who
is the richest man in the world again?
8.
After keeping its ingredients secret for decades, what major brewery finally
disclosed its simple recipe for its top-selling beer of water, barley malt, rice, yeast and hops after 40,000
petitioners demanded it do so in June?
9. What
happened to Cleveland's Cuyahoga River in 1936, 1952, and 1969?
10. What name does actress and comedian
Stephanie Courtney go by when she does commercials for Progressive Insurance?
Round Two
1. What
was called "Adam's Ale" in old-time diner's lingo?
2. What
late actor appeared in movies such as The
Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The
Magnificent Seven, Godfather III,
and yet was probably best known to many for playing Mr. Freeze on TV's Batman?
3.
Which is the largest kind of deer in North America, if not the world?
4. What
is the only on-the-field position not given in Abbott & Costello's bit
"Who's on First?"
5. In which Shakespeare play
would you find the phrase, "there's the rub?"
6.
Being Swiss, Catholic, and at least 5’8” tall are requirements to join what
small army?
7. In
what year did Seinfeld premier on NBC and The Simpsons debut on Fox?
8. Who
has won the most FIFA (Soccer) player of the year/Golden Ball [Ballon d'ors]
awards?
9. What is the scientific term for a rain cloud?
10. Queen
Elizabeth II always has at least four of which type of dogs in her retinue and
has owned more than a sum total of 30 of this kind of dog since 1952?
Round Three
1. What
word is defined by Grolier's Dictionary as, "The property or quality
manifested in functions such as metabolism, growth, response to stimulation,
and reproduction."
2. PHRASE JUMBLE (two words):
A-L-A-R-G-E-B-E-L-L-Y (Hint: A 5-4 Supreme Court decision)
3.
Which U.S. state consumes the least alcohol per capita, and for a bonus, which
U.S. state consumes the most? (2 pts.)
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/blogs/the-list/os-drunkest-states-in-the-us-20140602,0,543792.post
4. Why
is Sesame Steet's Count called "The Count"? And for a bonus, what is
the name of the mental disorder that would account for his obsession with this?
(2 pts.)
5. Who was
known as avuncular and "Mr. Television" during TV's golden age?
6. Who
became the first female co-host of any network news or public affairs program
in 1974?
7.
Which actor made guest appearances as Professor Proton on TV's Big Bang Theory?
8.
Monseigneur Georges Lemaître's 1927 "hypothesis of the primeval atom"
soon thereafter became known as what?
SF9. What
is the only North American city to have one professional football team win a
Grey Cup and another that won the Super bowl?
10.
Which does not study osteopathic medicine, an M.D. or a D.O.?
Bonus Round
1. Who
was the first president born in the then newly independent United States of
America?
2. In
reference to Friedrich Nietzsche's seminal work The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music, name the two Greek
gods who formed the archetypal embodiments of reason and order and chaos
and disorder respectively.
3. Name
three golfers who have won multiple majors since Tiger Woods crashed his
Cadillac Escalade into a fire hydrant outside his Lake Isleworth home at 2:30
AM on November 27, 2009?
4. Name
four members of the rock group KISS.
5. Name
5 of the historical figures Bill & Ted abducted through time in the movie Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.
Round One
Round Two
Round Three
[Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree (D.O.)]
Bonus Round
Gene Simmons – bass guitar, lead vocals
Ace Frehley – lead guitar, vocals
Peter Criss – drums, vocals
Tommy Thayer – lead guitar
Eric Singer – drums
Vinnie Vincent – guitar
Mark St. John – guitar
Bruce Kulick – guitar
Eric Carr – drums
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