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

April 2004 An Tobar Pub Quiz

SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 2004

An Tobar Pub Quiz 4.17.04

Animal Rollins D-Menace Trivia 04.17.04

Round I

1. Who is known as "the hardest working man in show business" and "the godfather of soul"?

2. Prior to Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, what was the only sequel to win an Oscar for best picture?

3. What is the name of Eminem’s band?

4. Who is British soccer star David Beckham’s wife?

5. Spell the word "rhinoceros".

6. What was so special about the otherwise meaningless Jets-Dolphins game aired on December 20, 1980?

7. Pancuronium bromide, sodium thiopental, and potassium chloride are all drugs used by the government for what?

8. In Norse mythology, a pair of what kind of birds sits on Odin’s shoulders?

9. A gaggle is a flock of what (not in flight)?

10. In what year did the TV show Friends debut? (history is like an amusement park, except instead of rides, you have dates to memorize)

Round II

1. If one million zeros can be written on the front and back of a sheet of paper, how many sheets of paper would it take to write out a googol in standard form?

2. Former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara has a very odd middle name, what is it?

3. The website www.lol.li is a website for what country?

4. What is the capital of Haiti?

5. What Elzie Segar comic strip celebrated its 75th Anniversary this year (2004)?

6. Suggesting it be called "the love or sweetness of Venus" what part of the human anatomy did Renaldus Columbus get credit for discovering in 1559?

7. Who painted Woman with a Pearl Necklace?

8. In what John Knowles novel did character Gene Forrester break his friend Phineas’s leg by shaking him off of a tree branch?

9. Ergophobia is the fear of _____.

10. In Star Trek VI, The Undiscovered Country, what beverage did Captain Kirk note was "no longer to be served at diplomatic functions"?

Round III

1. What new entry to the Oxford English Dictionary is defined as "An unstimulating, low-paid job with few prospects, esp. one created by the expansion of the service sector"[as in fast-food restaurants]?

2. I what movie did Orson Welles’s character, Harry Lime, say,  "In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love — they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."

3. Who holds the U.S. record for number of convictions for murders by a serial killer? (I’ll take his name or his nickname)

4. What musical features the songs Empty Chairs at Empty Tables, Javert’s Suicide, and, most notably, Drink With Me?

5. What were the ancient thieves Dismas and Gestas best-known for?

6. Rosalind Ave in Orlando was named after a character from what Shakespeare play where Orlando was in love with Rosalind?

7. According to Guinness, how tall was the tallest man ever to live? (in feet and inches, please)

8. What Latin American country makes baseballs for the major leagues?

9. Who was the last U.S. president elected who wore a mustache?

10. What ended on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918?

Bonus Round

1. What is the highest-ranking piece in the board game Stratego?

2. Who were the winners of seasons one and two of American Idol?

3. Prior to Jay Leno, who were the three permanent hosts of the Tonight Show?

4. Which teams currently have the highest payrolls in each of the four major sports (Baseball, Football, Basketball, and Hockey)?

5. Which five U.S. states do not use the word evolution in their science curricula?

Tiebreaker

1. Complete this analogy from literature: Hester Prynne : Arthur Dimmesdale :: Lulu Baines : __

2. Who wrote the Pledge of Allegiance in 1892?

3. What team won the CFL’s Grey Cup in 2003?

4. What car (give make and model, please) has an internet ad featuring a cat getting decapitated when its sunroof closes?

5. What is formed when the solar wind strikes the cloudy head of an approaching comet?

Tiebreaker’s tiebreaker (closest to the pin):

According to the UK’s Office for National Statistics what is the dollar value of the whole, entire United Kingdom (as of April 2001)?

Round I Answers

1. James Brown

2. Godfather II

3. D-12

4. Victoria, or Posh Spice

5. r-h-i-n-o-c-e-r-o-s

6. The TV broadcast had no announcers

7. lethal injection

8. Ravens (Huginn and Mumminn)

9. geese

10. 1994

Round II Answers

1. One [there are 100 zeros in a googol, so as large as that number is, it would easily fit on one page given the assumption]

2. Strange

3. Liechtenstein

4. Port-au-Prince

5. Popeye

6. the clitoris (that’s right Columbus discovered not America, but the clitoris)

7. Johannes Vermeer

8. A Separate Peace

9. work

10. Romulan Ale

Round III Answers

1. McJob

2. The Third Man

3. Gary Ridgway or the Green River Killer

4. Les Miserables

5. Being crucified alongside Jesus

6. As You Like It

7. 8'11"

8. Costa Rica

9. William Howard Taft

10. World War I

Bonus Round Answers

1. Marshall

2. Kelly Clarkson and Ruben Studdard

3. Jack Paar, Steve Allen, and Johnny Carson

4. New York Yankees, New Orleans Saints, New York Knicks, and New York Rangers

5. Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Alaska [In June 2005 Alaska's state board of education was pressured by scientists, teachers and concerned citizens to add evolution to science standards that had avoided the topic.]

[Georgia has this disclaimer: "This textbook contains material on evolution. Evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living things. This material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully and critically considered."]

Tiebreaker Answers

1. Elmer Gantry

2. Francis Bellamy

3. Edmonton Eskimos

4. Ford SportKa

5. The comet’s tail

Tiebreaker’s tiebreaker Answer (closest to the pin):

$8,919,570,000,000

January 2004 An Tobar Pub Quiz

SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 2004

An Tobar Pub Quiz 1.10.04

Round I

1. According to the rappers Outkast, what's cooler than being cool? (this has a definite two-word answer)

2. What famous actor is Angelina Jolie's father?

3. Which NCAA Division I college football team plays its home games at Beaver Stadium?

4. What two-word phrase is Chinese for "wind and water"?

5. A person suffering from ballistophobia is afraid of what?

Round II

1. An internet question: When you do a Google search on the words 'miserable failure', what's the first result you get?

2. What is the late Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow's name? (three names here: first, middle or maiden, and last name are all needed for credit)

3. What pro-Ku Klux Klan movie was the first feature length silent?

4. Who painted Madonna on the Meadow, School of Athens, and The Transfiguration?

5. Who lives in a pine-apple under the sea, absorbent and yellow and porous is he?

Round III

1. A CIA killer wants out of the agency, is killed by his boss, goes to hell, and then makes a deal with the devil to lead the forces of evil in Armageddon in order to see his wife again. Which comic-book superhero does this describe?

2. Which Shakespeare play ends with Vincentio the Duke proposing marriage to the virtuous Isabella, after giving orders for Claudio to marry Juliet, and Lucio to marry his whore?

3. What is the smallest U.S. state west of the Mississippi River? (in geographical area)

4. Clomicalm is the canine version of what human, prescription drug?

5. Greek for 'Heaven', he fathered the Titans, who fathered the Greek gods.

Round IV

1. Ending with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, this war is sometimes considered by historians to be the last religious war of Western civilization.

2. What is the capital of Libya?

3. What was the specific location of zip codes 10047 and 10048?

4. What TV show's final narration was 'Tuesday, August 29, 1967. The day the running stopped.'?

5. What was invented by William P. End? (hint: This is a case where the

inventor's name fits his invention)

Round V

1. Which is correct to say, 'The yolk of the egg are white' or, 'The yolk of the egg is white'?

2. What actress's real name was Linda Marchiano (although she starred in one well-known movie, I use the term 'actress' loosely here)?

3. What bandleader remarked: 'When I go I'm gonna take New Year's Eve with me'?

4. What animal is known as a polecat?

5. [Prior to John Kerry in 2004] Who was the last democrat the Orlando Sentinel endorsed for president?

Bonus~Round VI

1. Who is the only NFL player to have played for both the undefeated Dolphins of 1972 and the winless Tampa Bay Buccaneers of 1976? (this guy went from 14-0 to 0-14)

2. What are Siegfried and Roy's last names?

3. According to the movie Scream, what are the three rules for a character to survive a slasher flick?

4. What are the four fundamental forces of nature that the theory of everything seeks to unify in theoretical physics?

5. What are the five points of Calvinism as summarized by the acronym TULIP (T-U-L-I-P)?

Round I Answers

1. Ice cold

2. Jon Voight

3. Penn State Nittany Lions

4. Feng Shui (pronounced "fung shway")

5. missiles ( I also accepted ammunition, bullets, or guns)

Round II Answers

1. The biography of George W. Bush at http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/gwbbio.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Google_Bomb_Miserable_Failure.png

2. Coretta Scott King

3. The Birth of a Nation

4. Raphael (Sanzio)

5. Sponge Bob Square Pants

Round III Answers

1. Spawn

2. Measure for Measure [It's that classic play that inspired Cliffs Notes on Shakespeare's Measure for Measure]

3. Hawaii

4. Prozac

5. Uranus

Round IV Answers

1. The Thirty Years' War [The Hapsburg (Austrian) dynasty, Spain, and the German Catholic princes vs. France, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, England, and the German Protestant Princes]

2. Tripoli

3. World Trade Center

4. The Fugitive

5. The Stop Sign

Round V Answers

1. Neither. [The yolk of the egg is yellow; or, as a copy editor put it more fully: I'd say either "The yolk of the egg isn't white" or "The yolks of the eggs aren't white." I'd try to avoid making both of the statements (you presented).]

2. Linda Lovelace

3. Guy Lombardo

4. A skunk [in the U.S., ferret is Europe but I will take that too]

5. Lyndon Johnson (1964) Manning Pynn acknowledged this in October 12, 2003's Orlando Sentinel (he is Public Editor of the Orlando Sentinel, and he ougtht to know)]

Round VI Answers

1. Larry Ball (LB)

2. Fischbacher, Horn

3. never have sex; never drink or do drugs; and, never say 'I'll be right back.'

4. gravity, the strong nuclear force, the weak nuclear force, and the electromagnetic force

5. Total Depravity, Unconditional Election, Limited Atonement, Irresistable Grace, Perseverance of the saints