An Tobar May 2014 An Tobar Pub Quiz

May 2014 Pub Quiz An Tobar Pub Quiz

Round One

1. Who's the leader/ of the club/ that's made for you/ and me?

2. What do the Gaelic words An Tobar mean?

3. What is the annual date of International Workers' Day or May Day?

4. Which one of the following people did not win a Nobel Peace prize?

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Mother Theresa

Nelson Mandela 

Adolph Hitler

5. True or False: Scientist Albert Einstein failed at least one math class.

6. What is the next number in this sequence of numbers:

2, 3, 5, 7, ___?

7. Approximately how many cups are there in a liter (answer to the nearest whole number)?

8. Which sky condition has more cloud cover, partly cloudy or partly sunny?

9. Which U.S. state extends farther west: Minnesota or Texas?

10. Which U.S. President selected the Twinkie to be put in a millennial time capsule?

Round Two

1. What was comedic actor and writer Albert Brooks' given name?

2. What liquor was declared by a 1964 congressional resolution to be "America's only native spirit?"

3. During the heyday of the Roman Empire, what body of water was known as "the Roman Lake"?

4. According to research by ESPN The Magazine and Sportingintelligence, and as reported by the BBC, which sports team has the highest wages per player in the world?

5. Acrophobia is the fear of what?

6. "Go and tell your momma what the big boys eat" was a 1980s commercial for what cereal?

7. In which Brooklyn Academy of Music's Shakespeare play did Kevin Spacey star in shortly before House of Cards premiered on Netflix? His House of Cards' character, Francis Underwood, reflects a lot of this character.

8. Which is the only planet in our solar system not named after a Greek or Roman god or goddess?

9. According to his obituary in the New York Times, who was “The only person” to serve in professional football as a personnel assistant, an assistant coach, a head coach, a general manager, a commissioner and as an N.F.L. team owner and chief executive?

10. Who claims to have invented the phrase "bad hair day" while talking with her co-host Bryant Gumbel during the 1980s?

Round Three

1. According to the Beatle's Revolver album, where were Ringo Starr, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison taking up residence (at least) in 1966?

2. WORD JUMBLE: G-R-O-W-A-P-E-N-I-S hint: vice president

3. What is the only industry specifically mentioned in the Bill of Rights?

4. Where is Creighton University located, state and city (two points)?

5. What 1960s TV series was originally pitched to the networks with the title "Wagon Train to the Stars"? Bonus Question: What is the Latin phrase for "to the stars"? (2 pts.)

6. Which eye does Sesame Street’s Count von Count where his monocle, left or right; and for a bonus, how many eyebrows do Bert and Ernie have between the two of them (two points)?

7. What is the hard part of the outer ear immediately in front of the ear canal called?

8. Which Catholic cardinal did Andrew Greeley call, "the Lord High Inquisitor" in his 1986 book Confessions of a Parish Priest? [p. 332]

9. Nigeria recently overtook which other country to become Africa's largest economy as measured in GDP?

10. Named after a famous composer, what do you call a modern tuba a bandmember plays while marching?

Bonus Round

1. What three-lettered, often interrogatory, word is most universally used in conversation¹? [¹According to the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics]

2. Which is the newest Monopoly piece, and which piece did it replace?

3. According to Germany's Purity [Reinheitsgebot] law, what are the only three ingredients allowed to be used to make beer (not counting yeast)?

4. As the United States was in the preliminary stages of fighting a literal war against fascism, What four freedoms did President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delineate in his 1941 State of the Union address? Four fundamental freedoms FDR said people "everywhere in the world" ought to enjoy. [Hint: President Ronald Reagan replaced two of FDR's four freedoms with "freedom of enterprise" when he revised the list to three freedoms in his 1988 farewell address.]

5. Name five NFL players who have participated in Dancing with the Stars. 

Round One Answers

1. M-I-C-K-E-Y-M-O-U-S-E

2. the well

3. May 1

4. Adolph Hitler

5. False

6. 11

7. 4 [One cup = 8 ounces. 1 liter = 33.81/8= 4.23 cups]

8. partly sunny

9. Texas

10. Bill Clinton

Round Two Answers

1. Albert Einstein

2. Bourbon

3. The Mediterranean Sea (Mare Nostrum = "our sea")

4. Manchester City

5. heights

6. Wheaties

7. Richard III

8. Earth

9. Al Davis

10. Jane Pauley

Round Three Answers

1. a Yellow Submarine

2. Spiro Agnew

3. the press

4. Omaha, Nebraska

5. Star Trek; ad astra

6. Left; 1

7. Tragus

8. Cardinal Josef Ratzinger [who later became Pope Benedict XVI]

9. South Africa

10. a sousaphone (it's predecessor was the helicon)

Bonus Answers

1. huh

2. Cat; Iron

3. water, barley, hops

4. Freedom of speech, Freedom of worship, Freedom from want, and Freedom from fear

5. Keyshawn Johnson, Jacoby Jones, Donald Driver, Hines Ward, Kurt Warner, Chad Ochocinco (Johnson), Michael Irvin, Warren Sapp, Jason Taylor, Lawrence Taylor, Emmitt Smith, and Jerry Rice.

Second-Sunday Trivia at An Tobar

Who: Trivia-host Den is the MC, YOU need to attend

What: $5 entry fee per person (still cheap), cash prize; 3 rounds, 10 questions each; plus bonus round worth 15 points; In addition to 10 general-knowledge questions, second round will feature 5 Harry Potter alternative questions. Bring out your friends who are Harry Potter fans, and keep in mind there will still be high-quality general questions in that round for those who aren't. No limits on team size.

Where: An Tobar Irish Pub 600 N Lake Destiny Rd, Maitland, FL (Next to the Sheraton Hotel)

When: Sunday, September 14 at 6:00 PM

Why: To test yourself and your team with the gold standard* of trivia questions, to enjoy great food and drink at Central-Florida's best trivia venue, and possibly win cash. Last month's first prize was $80. *with apologies to the plenteous purveyors of pyrite

October 2004 An Tobar Pub Quiz

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2004

An Tobar Pub Quiz 10.9.04

Round One

1. Who said, "I tell you, since I was a kid, women always gave me a hard time. My mother never breast fed me. She told me she liked me as a friend." Moreover, "My old man didn’t help either. One time I was kidnapped. They sent a piece of my finger. He said he wanted more proof."?

2. What structure, built to attract visitor to Paris for the 1889 World’s Fair, was the world’s tallest structure for 42 years?

3. What is a baby peacock called?

4. Who was known as the Sun King of France and ordered the construction of the palace of Versailles?

5. What TV character was a dock foreman for Prendergast Tool and Die Company before he opened a bar?

6. What word was invented by Democritus and is Greek for “unable to cut”?

7. What are robots made of flesh called?

8.What is “this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and ominous bird of yore?

9. By what title is Indian philosopher Gautama Siddhartha better known?

10. What is the length of a U.S. dollar bill? (U.S. measurement please)

Round Two

1. [Bring squirt gun] I need a volunteer from each team that knows and loves alcohol. What kind of alcohol is considered to be a tasteless, odorless, and colorless spirit?

2. Who owns 88,000 brown vehicles?

3. In the movies, how did Marian Crane meet her untimely death at the Bates Motel?

4. What name did artist Dominico Thesto Copoulus use to sign his paintings?

5. What is another name for the Mission San Antonia de Valero?

6. Who celebrated her 100th birthday on October 28, 1986?

7. What is the only agricultural product that bears its seeds on the outside?

8. For what war was the first U.S. military draft enacted?

9. What country won soccer’s last World Cup?

10. In what film did William Shatner make his motion picture debut?

Round Three

1. What do you break when you crack the whip?

2. What is xenophobia?

3. What is par of St. Andrews old golf course?

4. In what year was the TV bar, Cheers, established?

5. What injury did John Wilkes Booth incur while fleeing after shooting President Lincoln?

6. What was the only Shakespearean play that mentioned America?

7. Who defended the Boston Strangler?

8. Which date is in the middle of the year?

9. Who penned "This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper" and for a bonus, what was the name of this poem?

10. John Astin, the actor who played Gomez Addams in the TV show The Addams Family is the father of the actor who played which Lord of the Rings movie Character?

Bonus

1. What does EPCOT stand for?

2. Playing the roles of 'Dap' and 'Leeds', which two often-confused actors appeared in the 1988 Spike Lee movie School Daze?

3. In what three states are this year’s presidential debates taking place?

4. According to infoplease.com, as of 2004, what are the four most populous cities in the world? (I am asking about cities proper--as opposed to urban agglomeration, which would also count the surrounding urban areas in the total.)

5. Who are the five chief meteorologists of Central Florida Television (WESH-2), Local 6, Channel 9, Fox 35 News, and Central Florida News 13?

Tiebreakers

1. What is the white, crescent-shaped area at the base of the fingernail called?

2. What was James Rodgers' last request before confronting a firing squad in 1960?

3. Who wrote the books Rosemary’s Baby and The Stepford Wives?

4. What is the world’s tallest nationality?

5. What is the number of the beltway surrounding Washington D.C.?

Round One Answers

1. Rodney Dangerfield

2. The Eiffel Tower

3. Peachick

4. Louis XIV

5. Archie Bunker

6. atom

7. androids

8. the raven

9. Buddha

10. Six inches

Round Two Answers

1. Vodka

2. UPS

3. Stabbed in the shower (scene of Psycho played by Janet Leigh)

4. El Greco

5. The Alamo

6. The Statue of Liberty

7. the strawberry

8. The Civil War

9. Brazil

10. The Brothers Karamazov

Round Three Answers

1. The sound barrier

2. Fear of foreigners or strangers

3. 72

4. 1895

5. A broken leg

6. The Comedy of Errors

7. F. Lee Bailey

8. July 2

9. T.S. Eliot; The Hollow Men

10. Samwise Gamgee

Bonus Round Answers

1. Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow

2. Laurence Fishburne and Samuel L. Jackson

3. Florida, Missouri, and Arizona

4. Shanghai,China; Mumbai (Bombay), India; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Moscow, Russia

5. Dave Marsh; Tom Sorrells; Tom Terry; Jeff Day; Glenn Richards

Tiebreakers Answers

1. lunule or lunula

2. A bullet-proof vest

3. Ira Levin

4. the Dutch (Netherlands)

5. I-495

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