An Tobar September 2014 Harry Potter Questions

Harry Potter Back-to-school Themed Questions

1. The thestrals are only visible to people who have seen what?

2. From what train station platform number did the Hogwart's train leave?

3. What was the name of the train station where you would board the Hogwart's Express?

4. What was the occasion for first Neville and then Hermione meeting Harry and Ron on the train in the first book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone?

5. Who was the original owner of the sorting hat?

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Harry Potter Back-to-school Themed  Answers

1. people who have seen death

2. 9 ¾

3. London's King's Cross Station

4. Neville lost his toad (I accepted frog or toad)

5. Godric Gryffindor

An Tobar August 2014 An Tobar Pub Quiz

An Tobar Trivia 8.10.14

Round One

1. War, huh, yeah, what is it good for?

2. One Percent milk contains 1% milk fat. 2% milk contains 2% milk fat. What percentage of fat does whole milk contain?

3. According to an often-cited Yale study, what is the most recognizable scent in the world?

4. What well-known comic book, TV, and movie superhero was characterized by comedian John Fugelsang as a space alien who thinks he can make a living working for a newspaper?

5. Who is older, Tori Amos or Sarah McLachlan?

6. Which of these dinosaurs never really existed?

Bambiraptor 
Brontosaurus 

Gasosaurus

Irritator

7. Which of the following countries is not served by the Peace Corps?

Fiji 
France

Jamaica

South Africa

8. "Ancient Chinese secret" was the catchphrase of a 1970s commercial for what water softener?

9. What is the largest lake in South America?

10. Also referred to as the "brofist," "respect knuckles," and "bumping the rock," what gesture has been deemed by August issue of The American Journal of Infection Control as more sanitary than handshaking or high-fiving?

Round Two

1. What's the plastic thing in the middle of a pizza box called?

2. Who was the last U.S. President to be elected by all-male voters?

3. The softcover of this fiction book is now number one on the New York times best-seller list after its hardcover spent 28 weeks at number one in 2012.

4. What is the best-selling pinup poster of all-time?

5.  Which 1984 baseball movie contained the following line, "I boned it so it wouldn't chip"?

6. Seuss or Shady: Complete this Dr. Suess book title, Please Try to Remember the First of ________ -or- In Eminem's rap titled Business, how does he rhyme the word "orange?"

7. What is the most populated state without a major professional sports team? (major means NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL)

8. Which is the brainiest breed of dog?

9. Which singer's fans are known as "Little Monsters"?

10. A 1952 team led by food scientist Edwin Traisman developed what pasteurized yellow topping designed for corn chips and hotdogs which Kraft foods Web site describes as having a unique tangy flavor with zing?

Harry Potter Questions

1. What was Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone called in Britain?

2. Why did James Potter, Peter Pettigrew, and Sirius Black learn to be Animagi?

3. Prior to Voldemort, who was the most dangerous dark wizard of all-time?

4. Name the three deathly hallows. Must correctly name all three to earn one point.

5. Before he died Snape took an action to make sure Harry knew the truth. What magical devise did Harry use to see what Snape had to tell him?

Round Three

1. Invented in 1869, The Whirlwind was an early model of which household appliance?

2. Name Jumble (2 first and last name):

U-R-I-N-E-J-E-S-T-B-I-B

Hint: fought Legolas

^Tennis3. Who was the most recent American to win Tennis's U.S. Open? And for a bonus, who was the most recent American to win the Men's U.S. Open in tennis? (2 pts.)

^Antlions4. Because of the designs they make in the sand, what is an Antlion larva often called in North America?

5. Which one of the following is not famous for playing soccer, and for a bonus, what sport did he play? (2 pts)

Ricardo Kaká

Christiano Ronaldo

Luis Suárez

Sachin Tendulkar

6. Featured in an A&E reality-TV series from 2009 to 2013 which mental disorder first appeared in psychology's The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders , or DSM, in 2013?

7. On July 23, 2014 ISIS¹ (or IS², not ISIL³) militants blew up a mosque in Mosul that was reported to be the burial place of what Old Testament and Islamic prophet? Hint: Mosul is near the remains of the ancient city of Nineveh.

8. Currently being portrayed by John Lithgow in New York's Central Park's Delacourte Theater, Which Shakespeare character said this, "Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, that thou mayst shake the superflux to them, and show the heavens more just."?

9. Who was the "king of swing" and for a second point, which band released "The Sultans of Swing" in 1978 and 1979 (2 pts)?

10. What is the ulnar nerve in the elbow is better known as?

Bonus Round

1. Its pantheon includes Wes Anderson films, the movie Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, and artist Deschanel, this artistic youth movement has been described by its critics as "a kind of fetishization of the nerd, the geek, the dork, and the virgin"?

2. Who topped Forbes' 2014 list of the highest-earning actress between June 2013 and June 2014 and who was the highest-earning actor?

3. Name the three classical liberal arts that constitute the trivium.

4. What are the top-four beer-selling companies to U.S. consumers, controlling between  74–90% of U.S. beer sales?

5. BRICS, spelled B-R-I-C-S (no "k"), is an acronym for the association of what five nations with emerging economies accounting for 25% of global GDP and 40% of the world’s population?

Answers....

Round One
1.  Absolutely nothing

2. 4% (minimum fat content of 3.5% fat)
3. coffee
4. Superman
5. Tori Amos (51 August 22) [Sarah McLachlan 46]
6. Brontosaurus
7. France
8. Calgon
9. Lake Titicaca (surface area 3,232 sq mi) (Lake Maracaibo has a larger surface area, but it is considered to be a large brackish bay due to its direct connection with the sea.)
10. fist bumping

Round Two

1. pizza saver, package saver, or pizza table

2. Woodrow Wilson

3. Fifty Shades of Grey (E.L. James) (beginning 8.10.14) [The softcover was published with a bonus 51st shade of grey.]

4. Farrah Fawcett in a one piece swimsuit

5. The Natural

6. Octember; Puts "orange" in the plural and rhymes it with "syringes"

7. Virginia (12th most populated state at little over 8 million)

8. border collie (source: the 2014 Guinness Book of World Records—Keep in mind after Homer used the Duff Book of World Records to settle a bar dispute, Lenny said: Oh.  Geez, I was wrong. But I ain't angry. and Carl said: And I'm magnanimous in victory. 13^th season, Sweets and Sour Marge)

9. Lady Gaga

10. Cheez Wiz

Harry Potter Questions

1. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

2. So they could be with their friend Lupin when he turned into a werewolf

3. Gellert Grindelwald

4. the elder wand, the resurrection stone, and the cloak of invisibility

5. a Pensieve

Round Three

1. The vacuum cleaner

2. Justin Bieber

3. Serena Williams (2013) Andy Roddick (2003)

4. Doodlebug

5. Sachin Tendulkar; cricket

6. compulsive hoarding

7. Jonah or Younis ¹Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS); ²Islamic State ³Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)

8. King Lear

9. Benny Goodman; Dire Straits

10. the funny bone

Bonus Round

1. Twee (or Indie pop)

2. Sandra Bullock ($51 million); Robert Downey, Jr. ($75 million)

3. Grammar, rhetoric, and logic [or dialectic] (The other four are: Arithmetic, Geometry, Music, and Astronomy [or cosmology])

4. ABInBev or Anheuser-Busch;

SABMiller or MillerCoors & Molson;

Modelo (Crown Imports a division of Constellation brand) or Corona (Extra);

Heineken

5. Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa

Pub Quiz Rules

Pub Quiz Rules

1.   No cheating at trivia.

2.   No cheating at trivia.

3.   All present here must pay the $5 entry fee. The entry fee is non-refundable. No limits on team size.

4.   The game is composed of three rounds of ten questions each, and a bonus round worth 15 points. At the end of each round, you'll turn in your answers and we'll score them. After an intermission we'll announce the correct answers to the previous rounds and the team scores.

5.   One answer per question slot. No extra answers, please. Incorrect extra answers will be subject to penalty.

6.   No outside help for questions. No shouting out answers. No use of electronic devices or reference books to help your team answer quiz questions. No laptops or references books allowed in the quiz area, not even between rounds. Leave them at home, please—or at least in your car. Cell phones may only be used between rounds. If you have an emergency use of your cell phone, please excuse yourself for the remainder of that round to do so.

7.   In the event of a tie, the tied teams will be asked five sudden-death tiebreaker questions. If there is still a tie after sudden-death overtime, then the tie will be decided by a closest-to-the-pin type question.

8.   Trivia-host Den will take reasonable measures to insure the competitive balance of the Pub Quiz competition.

9.   The quiz host is the final arbiter of all quiz answers and Pub Quiz rules. Any common-sense rule in the interest of fair play may be enforced by the quiz master even if not specifically delineated above.

You 'bout to witness trivia in it's most purest, most rawest form, flow almost flawless, most hardest, most honest known artist, chip off the old block, but ol' Den is back....

An Tobar July 2014 An Tobar Pub Quiz

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 

1. the candy man

2. Casey Kasem

3. Brazil (3,287,357 mi²; contiguous-U.S. 3,119,884.69 mi²)

4. Germany

5. gasoline

6. by peeing in them

7. Bill Gates

8. Budweiser

9. It caught on fire.

10. Flo

Round Two 

1. water

2. Eli Wallach

3. moose

4. right field (First Base--Who; Second Base--What; Third Base--I Don't Know; Left field--Why; Center field--Because; Pitcher--Tomorrow; Catcher--Today; Shortstop--I Don't Care/I Don't Give a Darn/I Don't Give a Damn)

5. Hamlet

6. The Swiss Guard

7. 1989

8. Lionel Messi

9. nimbus

10. [Welsh] Corgis (She currently keeps two corgis and two Dorgis [corgi/dachshund cross])

Round Three

1. Life

2. BARELY LEGAL

3. Utah; New Hampshire (Florida ranks 13th nation wide)

4. because he loves to count things; arithmomania

5. Milton Berle

6. Barbara Walters (Jessica Savage was the first female weekend new anchor)

7. Bob Newhart

8. the Big Bang Theory

9. Baltimore (Stallions 1995, Ravens 2001, 2013)

10.Doctor of Medicine degree (M.D.)

[Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree (D.O.)]

Bonus Round

1. Martin Van Buren

2. Apollo and Dionysus (Bacchus)

3. Bubba Watson (Master's '12 and '14), Phil Mickelson (Master's '10, British Open '13), Rory McIlroy (U.S. Open '11, PGA Championship '12 [he's won more since July 2013]), and Martin Kaymer ('10 PGA Championship, '14 U.S. Open)

4. Paul Stanley – rhythm guitar, lead vocals

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

5. Any 5: Napoleon, Billy the Kid, Socrates, Freud, Genghis Khan, Joan of Arc, Abraham Lincoln, Beethoven