September 2004 An Tobar Pub Quiz

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2004

 An Tobar Pub Quiz 9.19.04

Round One

1. If there's something strange in your neighborhood…If there's something weird and it don't look good…Who you gonna call?

2. Invented by John "Ol’ Chumbucket" Baur and Mark "Cap’n Slap Happy" Summers in 1995, today’s national holiday became what international holiday when Australia learned about it from a Dave Barry column in 2002?

3. Which speaker at the last Republican National Convention said the objective of a good life is, "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women!"

4. What continent spans all twenty-four time zones?

5. What celebrity will be the first to be featured topless in Madame Tussaud's (too-sows’) wax museum?

6. Peanuts, along with beans and peas, belong to what plant family?

7. Beginning June 1st, the U.S. hurricane season extends to the end of what month?

8. In the Bible, is the Book of Hebrews in the Old Testament or the New Testament?

9. Who is the Miami Dolphins’ all-time leading rusher?

10. What is Florida’s largest lake? (in surface area)

Round Two

1. What kind of aftershave is on my shirt?

2. True of False. The Koala Bear is really a marsupial?

3. What country artist’s jinglistic jingoisms suggest American enemies take “a boot up the ass” courtesy of the red, white and blue?

4. Who wrote the book Crossing Over and has a TV talk show of the same name?

5. In what year was the original Manchurian Candidate movie released? (2 points for correct year; 1 point for being off by one year either way)

6. What will be Shaquille O’Neal’s jersey number for the Miami Heat?

7. Which Italian family ruled Florence during Renaissance times?

8. Who portrayed the artist Jackson Pollock in the 2000 movie Pollock?

9. Viagra was originally invented by the U.S. pharmaceutical company Pfizer as a treatment for what condition?

10. Which is the brightest star in the night sky?

Round Three

1. What is currently the longest-running program on U.S. network TV?

2. Who coined the phrase, “never got a dinner''? Was it Red Barber, Red Buttons, or Red Skeleton?

3. According to Ulf Erlingsson’s upcoming book called Atlantis from a Geographer's Perspective: Mapping the Fairy Land, What myth probably originated from the fate the Dogger Bank--an isolated shoal in the North Sea near Ireland?

4. In the TV show I Dream of Jeannie, what was name of Jeannie’s dog?

5. Who was John Q. Adams vice president, forming the only “John and John” President-V.P combo?

6. Here’s an “Amazing Richard” Legacy Question: In what country are Altoids made?

7. Winning a Grammy for best new artist of 1976, What number one hit did The Starland Vocal Band have in July of that year? (hint: this band was definitely a one-hit wonder)

8. In 1938, What pilot was supposed to fly from New York to Los Angeles but flew to Ireland instead?

9. In what U.S. state would you find persons called "Yoopers" and "Trolls"?

Seuss or Shady: Write the three-word answer to one of these questions.

10. Seuss: BOOM BOOM SPLATT SPLATT TICK TICK TOCK

SIZZLE SIZZLE BLURP BLURP _____ _____ _____

Shady: the FCC won’t let me be or let me be me so let me see they tried to shut me down on MTV but it feels so _____ _____ _____ empty

Bonus

1. Who was the only U.S. first lady not born in America?

2. What two NFL teams have helmets in their helmet insignia?

3. According to the 2000 U.S. Census, after English and Spanish, what are the three most common languages used by households at home?

4. How many teams are there in each of the four major sports: NFL, MLB, NBA, and the NHL? (In the NBA count the Charlotte Bobcats, in the NHL, assume the league still exists)(Give the answers in the order I asked the question or specify NFL, MLB, NBA, and NHL)

5. List five of the affirmative responses a person can get from a Magic Eightball. Write down only five; exact wording will be necessary for answers to be correct.

Round One Answers

1. Ghostbusters!

2. Talk Like a Pirate Day

3. Arnold Schwarzenegger

4. Antarctica

5. Brad Pitt

6. (Leguminosae) legume

7. November

8. New Testament

9. Larry Csonka (6,737 yards)

10. Lake Okeechobee

Round Two Answers

1. Old Spice

2. True

3. Toby Keith

4. John (or Jonathan) Edwards

5. 1962

6. 32

7. The Medici

8. Ed Harris

9. High blood pressure

10. Sirius

Round Three Answers

1. Meet the Press (1947)

2. Red Buttons

3. Atlantis

4. Djinn-Djinn

5. John C. Calhoun

6. Britain

7. Afternoon Delight

8. Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan

9. Michigan

DR10. KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK (Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?)

MM10. without me (Without Me)

Bonus Round Answers

1. Louisa Adams

2. Miami and Oakland

3. Chinese, French, German

4. 32, 30, 30, 30

5. Outlook Good; You May Rely On It; Most Likely; Yes; Yes Definitely; It Is Certain; It Is Decidedly So; Signs Point to Yes; Without a Doubt; As I See It, Yes;

July 2004 An Tobar Pub Quiz

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

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

May 2004 An Tobar Pub Quiz

SATURDAY, MAY 15, 2004

An Tobar Pub Quiz 5.15.04

Round One

1. A man pointed to a picture and said "Brothers and sisters have I none, but this man’s father is my father’s son." Whose picture was the man pointing at?

2. Who was Janet Jackson performing with when she showed off her right breast during halftime at this year’s Superbowl?

3. Who was Al Gore’s famous roommate at Harvard?

4. Cinco de Mayo (or as the Mexicans like to call it, the fifth of May) commemorates a Mexican military victory over what country?

5. Prince’s album 1999 was released on October 27 of what year? (2 pts. for exact year, 1 pt. for being within 1 year either way)

6. What rapper features a Rolls Royce in his video P.I.M.P.?

7. What was the real identity of late-night TV clairvoyant Carnac the Magnificent?

8. Which of these is not a Dr. Seuss title?

A. Cow goes Pow

B. Fox in Socks

C. Hop on Pop

D. Hunches in Bunches

9. What 1999 Matt Damon film usually has the adjectives Mysterious Yearning Secretive Sad Lonely Troubled Confused Loving Musical Gifted Intelligent Beautiful Tender Sensitive Haunted and Passionate truncated from its title?

10. On the TV show Laverne and Shirley, what was Laverne’s favorite drink?

Round Two

1. What is the only U.S. state without interstate highways (built to interstate highway standards)?

2. What was Nemo’s father’s name in the movie Finding Nemo?

3. What actress was nominated for four Golden Globe Awards for her work on Melrose Place, and one for her work on Spin City?

4. What is the name of Erich Maria Remarque fictional book about World War I?

5. According to the German magazine Men’s Car, drivers of what make of automobile have the most frequent sex (2.2x week)? [Three times a week is more ideal—like fundamentalist churchgoing—twice on the weekend and one midweek service]

HP6. What do J.K. Rowling’s initials stand for?

6. What movie introduced the Sylvester Stallone character Rambo?

HP7. What’s the name of the curse that killed Harry Potter’s parents?

7. Which day is not mentioned in the Beatles' song Lady Madonna?

HP8. Who was Harry Potter’s first defense against the dark arts teacher?

8. Besides its two title characters, what Shakespeare play also features Octavius Caesar, Ledipus, Octavia, and Pompey?

HP9. In Goblet of Fire, who was Harry Potter’s date for the Yule Ball?

9. What American painter began his career with Civil War prints for Harper’s Weekly and then went on to paint Eagle Head, Manchester, Massachusetts (High Tide), and The Herring Net?

HP10. Who killed Sirius Black?

10. What is the capital of Afghanistan? (the other war, remember?)

Round Three

1. The web-based company Google is looking to raise $2,718,281,828 in its initial public offering, where did they get such an irrational number from?

2. What comedian died of complications from lung cancer on May 16, 1984, and promised to come back twenty years to the date if he was faking?

3. What United States presidential election was the only one where there was a tie in the electoral college which had to be decided by the House of Representatives? (Give the year of the election or the two men who tied)

4. Who will be playing the role of Daisy Duke in an upcoming film adaptation of The Dukes of Hazard?

5. When Wild Bill Hickok was shot in Deadwood while playing poker, what hand was he holding?

6. During the Civil War, General McClellan was made aware of the details of General Lee’s planned invasion of Maryland after a Union private found Lee’s Special Orders lying in some grass wrapped around what?

7. What was the first film adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula? (It was not called ‘Dracula’ due to copyright problems with Bram Stoker’s widow.)

8. Give me the title or author of the current number one, bestselling, non-fiction hardcover on the New York Times best seller list?

9. Who was the greek god of the underworld (I’ll accept his Greek or Roman name)?

10. Who has replaced Casey Kasem as host of the weekly pop countdown show American Top 40?

Bonus

1. Who is the only driver to win the Indianapolis 500, the Daytona 500, and the 24 hours of LeMans?

2. In 1937 a baseball player and a horse both won triple crowns, name them.

3. Kill Bill Vol. 1, was billed as Quentin Tarantino’s fourth film. What were the movie’s marketing people considering Tarantino’s first three films?

4. What are the four tallest buildings in the world (based on height in feet, not necessarily stories; order is not important)?

5. Excluding Andy Rooney, name the five current correspondents mentioned at the beginning of every 60 Minutes Program?

Round One Answers

1. A picture of his son [If you don’t get this one substitute the word "myself" for the phrase "my father’s son". This man’s father is myself. Therefore it’s his son.]

2. Justin Timberlake

3. Tommy Lee Jones

4. France

5. 1982

6. 50 Cent

7. Johnny Carson

8. Cow goes Pow

9. The Talented Mr. Ripley

10. Milk and Pepsi

Round Two Answers

1. Alaska

2. Marlin

3. Heather Locklear

4. All Quiet on the Western Front

5. BMW

HP6. Joanne Kathleen

6. First Blood

HP7. Avada Kedavra

7. Saturday

HP8. Professor Quirrell

8. Antony and Cleopatra

HP9. Parvati Patil

9. Winslow Homer

HP10. Bellatrix Black-Lestrange

10. Kabul

Round Three Answers

1. e (the value of the natural logarithm function, a transcendental number with the first ten digits of 2.718281828)

2. Andy Kaufman

3. 1800 or Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr

4. Jessica Simpson

5. Two pairs, aces and eights

6. cigars

7. Nosferatu (Eine Symphonie das Grauens)

8. Plan of Attack (Bob Woodward) (Richard Clarke’s Against all Enemies is number 4 and John Dean’s Worse than Watergate is number 6).

9. Hades or Pluto

10. Ryan Seacrest

Bonus Round Answers

1. A.J. Foyt

2. Joe Medwick and War Admiral

3. Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown

4. Taipei 101 (1667 ft.; Taipei, Taiwan), Petronas Tower 1, Petronas Tower 2 (1483 ft.; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), Sears Tower (1450 ft.; Chicago) [5th Jin Mao Building Shanghai 1381 ft.]

5. Ed Bradley, Steve Kroft, Morley Safer, Lesley Stahl, Mike Wallace