Second Sunday Trivia at An Tobar Irish Pub January 11, 2015
Round One
1. A
real celebration Waiting for us all If we want it, really want it Can you dig
it?
2. Connect these words: Bees, Whales,
Serial
3.
Which sportscaster popularized phrases such as these?:
"He
must be the bus driver cuz he was takin' him to school."
"They
call him the Windex Man 'cause he's always cleaning the glass."
&
"You ain't gotta go home, but you gotta get the heck outta here."
4. The
lion itself is gold and some of the writing and designs are in white, but what
is the base color of the Orlando City Lions MLS soccer team as seen on its
crest and uniforms?
5. What
awards show did Tina Fey describe as the only time when "the beautiful
people of film rub shoulders with the rat-faced people of television."
6. How
many total pieces are there on a chessboard at the beginning of a game?
7.
Which Shakespeare play was set in Scotland and England?
8.
Which main Star Trek TNG character was designed and built by Doctor Noonien
Soong?
9.
Pilsener, porter, and stout are all styles of what?
10. In
addition to mice, kangaroo rats, and pocket gophers, what dam-building animal
is the fourth of the suborder of rodents known as Castorimorpha?
Round Two
1.
Which has more Spanish-speaking people: Los Angeles or the entire Madrid
Metropolitan area?
2. What
villain did Vincent Price portray in the 1960s Batman TV series?
3. What
country produces approximately 36% of all clothing purchased in the United
States?
4. In
which of TV's Breaking Bad's five
seasons did the character Saul Goodman first appear?
5. In
which sport do we see two teams of 15 each using a spheroid ball with an
elliptical profile on a rectangular field having capital H-shaped goalposts on
each "try line"?
6. Why
was a U.K. farmer was compelled to kill some of his Heck cattle?
They were
a reservoir source for the Ebola virus
They
had a different bola virus that cows
chiefly get
They
showed telltale signs of Mad-cow disease
They
were descendants of the so-called Nazi Super Cows and were, hence, too
dangerous and aggressive.
7.
Within 10: How many member states are there in the United Nations?
8. A
xenophile is a lover of what?
9.
There are plans in the works for Lee Major's The Six Million Dollar Man to be remade into movie starring Mark
Wahlberg as a bionic man costing how much?
10.
What mythical female warriors from Asia Minor fought with Troy against the Greeks?
Harry Potter
1. Name one of the three
things J.K. Rowling wrote made Harry Potter an unusual boy in the opening
paragraph of The Prisoner of Azkaban?
2. What was the name of the
hippogriff that attacked Draco Malfoy?
3. Which team handed Harry
Potter his first Quidditch defeat ever?
4. When Harry was
anonymously sent a Firebolt Quidditch broom as a gift, who did Ron initially
think sent it?
5. Who or what verified for
Ron that the owl Sirius Black gave him was definitely an owl?
Round Three
1.
Which organ, which may be even larger now that you've spent a couple of hours
at a Pub, is the largest internal organ in the human body?
2. How
much is a "dime" bet in gambler's parlance?
3. What
is the only fantasy (or science fiction) movie to win an Oscar for best
picture?
4. What
HBO TV show, which ended earlier this year after 7 seasons, was based on
southern, mystery vampire novels by Charlaine Harris?
5. Wesley
Snipes and Woody Harrelson portrayed two basketball hustlers in what 1992 film?
6. What
is the title of Korean-rapper Psy's rapping-dance video that broke the YouTube
counter at 2,147,483,647 views (greater than a 32-bit integer's handling
capacity), as announced on December 1, 2014?
7. What
number is both an area code of Los Angeles and a Boeing Wide-body, long-range
jet airliner?
8. Who
is the only U.S. president to have an African nation's capital named after him?
9. Who
framed Roger Rabbit?
10.
What adult magazine publisher was shot and paralyzed by racist-extremist serial
killer Joseph Paul Franklin in 1978?
Bonus Round
1. What
was Martin Luther King Jr.'s legal name at birth (he had just a first and last
name)?
2. Who
were the only two human characters in the Bible (specifically the Old
Testament) who did not die?
3. Name
three artificial sweeteners approved by the FDA.
4. Name
the four states that allow, or have voted to allow by February 24, 2015,
recreational use of marijuana. Do not include the District of Columbia in your
answer.
5.
Among teams with a minimum of 600 wins.
Name
the NCAA Division-I football teams with the five highest all-time winning
percentages.
Sudden Death
Are the
following celebrities dead or alive?
Buddy
Ebsen
Eva
Gabor
Eddie
Albert
Bob
Denver
Florence
Henderson
Closest to the pin
By how
many years did Joe Cocker outlive John Belushi? (In other words, how many years
after Belushi died did Cocker die?)
Round One Answers
1. yes, I can
2. Killer
3. Stuart Scott
4. purple
5. Golden Globes
6. 32
7. Macbeth
8. Lieutenant Commander Data
9. Beer
10. the beaver
Round Two Answers
1. the Madrid
Metropolitan area (6.5 million vs. LA's 4.4
million; 3.3 million in Madrid proper)
2. Egghead
3. China
4. Season 2
5. Rugby
6. They were
descendants of the so-called Nazi Super Cows and were, hence, too dangerous and
aggressive.
7. 193 (183–203)
8. strangers, foreign peoples, manners, or cultures
9. Six Billion Dollars
($6,000,000,000)
10. Amazons
Harry Potter Answers
1. he hated summer holidays (vacation); he wanted to do his
homework; he was a wizard
2. Buckbeak (after he attacked Malfoy he was given the alias "Witherwings")
3. Hufflepuff
4. Dumbledore
5. Crookshanks
Round Three Answers
1. the liver
2. $1,000.00
3. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003)
4. True Blood
5. White Men Can't
Jump
6. Gangnam Style
7. 747
8. James Monroe (Monrovia, Liberia)
9. Judge Doom
10. Larry Flynt
Bonus Round Answers
1. Michael King
2. Enoch (Genesis:5:24; Hebrews 11:5) and Elijah (II Kings 2:10-11)
3. saccharin or Sweet'N Low;
aspartame or Nutrasweet;
sucralose or Splenda;
Neotame or Newtame;
acesulfame potassium or Sweet One;
and advantame
[Cyclamate banned in 1969; Stevia banned in 1987, but given no
objection status in 2008; Lead acetate not used in most of the world anymore;
Mogroside]
4. Alaska, Colorado, Washington, and Oregon
5. Notre Dame (.732), Michigan
(.729), Ohio State (.720+), Oklahoma (.718), Alabama (.716)
Sudden Death Answers
1. d. (2003)
2. d. (1995)
3. d. (2005)
4. d. (2005)
5. a. (b. 1934)
Closest to the pin Answer
32.8 years [9 months 17 days 3.5.82 12.22.14]
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