Round 7 at the Old Pequliar on Nov. 18, 2008
Average score: 4.2/10 (15 teams) — a little more difficult than I’d like

1) Stephen King wrote the miniseries Rose Red after he left working on what similar 1999 horror film based on a novel by Shirley Jackson?

2) What 2006 Robert Altman comedy is set at a farewell performance at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota?

3) John Grisham’s favorite adaptation from any of his novels is what 1997 Francis Ford Coppola film co-starring Danny DeVito?

4) What Rob Reiner movie dramatizes the 1994 trial of Byron de la Beckwith, the white supremacist accused of assassinating Medgar Evars in 1963?

5) According to the poster, what 1995 horror film that spawned four sequels features “an evil born in heaven … about to be unleashed on earth”?

6) Alan Smithee and Judas Booth are credited with directing and writing a longer cut of what David Lynch film, which he turned down Return of the Jedi to film?

7) Until this year’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, what 2006 thriller, set in Seattle, was the last Harrison Ford film in theaters ?

8) Mr. Skin’s favorite movie for seeing Jennifer Connelly naked (butt and breasts!) is what 1990 neo-noir directed by Dennis Hopper?

9) What 1992 horror film, inspired by the legend of Mary Worth, spawned two sequels, subtitled Farewell to the Flesh and Day of the Dead?

10) What actor or actress appears in all nine of these movies?

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Round 6 at the Old Pequliar on Nov. 18, 2008
Average score: 5.1/10 (15 teams)

I’ll name several or all of the novels in a series. For a half point each, tell me the author and what the series is known as.

Example: The Waste Lands, Song of Susannah, and Wolves of the Calla — Stephen King, The Dark Tower

1) The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, So Long and Thanks for All the Fish, and Mostly Harmless

2) On the Banks of Plum Creek, By the Shores of Silver Lake, and The Long Winter

3) Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso

4) The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, and White Jazz

5) Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World

6) Master and Commander, The Surgeon’s Mate, and The Far Side of the World

7) The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, and First Among Sequels

8) The Book of Three, The Black Cauldron, and The High King

9) Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, and The Deerslayer

10) New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn

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Apparently it’s music week — most of the questions of the day this week have had a music theme. I credit (or blame) an upcoming karaoke night and the anticipation.

TODAY’S QUESTION:

Paul McCartney wrote two songs named after dogs that he owned, one with the Beatles and one with Wings. Which songs are they?

YESTERDAY’S ANSWER:

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Round 5 at the Old Pequliar on Nov. 18, 2008
Average score: 7.6/11 (15 teams)

Tuesday Evening Revival Service

Brothers and sisters! Tonight we’ve been mucking around with the devil. Yes, the devil. He lives in the details, and trivia is all about details. All about the devil. The devil in the details.

But that’s gonna change. That’s gonna change right now. Because we’re going to listen to some religious music. Listen closely, brothers and sisters. Each and every one of these songs is has a religious term in its title.

You need to tell me who’s singing, and the name of the song. The artist and the song title are worth a half! point! each!

Can you give me an amen? Amen!

Religious songs: Q01

Religious songs: Q02

Religious songs: Q03

Religious songs: Q04

Religious songs: Q05

Religious songs: Q06

Religious songs: Q07

Religious songs: Q08

Religious songs: Q09

Religious songs: Q10

Religious songs: Q11

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Round 3 at the Old Pequliar on Nov. 18, 2008
Average score: 6.47/10 (15 teams)

Given three definitions, find the one term that fits them all.

Example:
Something you’d see on a slot machine, a U2 song, and a name you’ll hear on Must-See Thursday: Lemon

1) Part of an engine, a Chuck Palahniuk novel, and what the Patriots did in Super Bowl LXII

2) A Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young album, paramnesia, and home of 1000s of beautiful girls and 3 ugly ones

3) A Radiohead song, a project management hazard, and the Committee to Re-elect the President

4) A kind of bowl, a kind of bunny, and the source of T.S. Eliot’s fear

5) An infantry weapon, a freshwater fish, and a starfleet captain

6) The fictional criminal agency opposed by MASK, a toxin, and a Topher Grace role

7) Mr. Wilson, a cocktail that includes an egg, and a somersault

8) Burt Reynolds’ autobiography, a Michael Keaton film, and a presidential autobiography

9) A Cirque du Soleil show, a hug, and Mr. Henry

10) A key, a Prime Minister, and a resident of Fawlty Towers

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Can you name this song? (Click the image for a closer look.)

This is all the lyrics of a song, minus any mentions of the title, cloudified by Wordle. The bigger the word, the more the songwriter used it.

UPDATE: Solved by Kza in the comments. Congrats!

TODAY’S QUESTION:

Most Las Vegas casinos deal a customized version of what brand of playing cards?

YESTERDAY’S ANSWER:

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Can you name this song? (Click the image for a closer look.)

This is all the lyrics of a song, minus any mentions of the title, cloudified by Wordle. The bigger the word, the more the songwriter used it.

UPDATE: Solved in the comments. David had the fastest fingers.

The grand high muckety-mucks at the very cool “online magazine rack” alltop.com recognized the quintessentially kick-ass nature of this site and added it to trivia.alltop.com.

(Skeptical? Look at the badge over there to the right. I quote: “kick ass.”)

And how was your day?

Round 1 at the Old Pequliar on Nov. 18, 2008

1) Barack Obama’s favorite sweets come from what local chocolatier?

2) If you’re eating something that’s at least 13% milk solids, 3.5% milk fat, 20% cocoa butter, and no more than 55% sugar, according to US regulations, what is it?

3) Daniel Peter invented milk chocolate, applying skills he used in what other profession involving melted material?

4) Nestle Quik chocolate milk mix was first introduced in 1948. What flavor came next, in 1959?

5) What former cast member on In Living Color hosts Comedy Central’s Chocolate News?

6) What West African country is the world’s leading exporter of cocoa, a crop introduced during the French colonial period?

7) What funk album by Parliament shares its name with a controversial phrase used in a 2006 speech by New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin?

8) Roald Dahl’s sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is called Charlie and the … what unusual mode of transportation?

9) Hershey’s Kisses were originally only wrapped in silver foil. What two additional colors did Hershey first use in 1962?

10) According to McSweeney’s, what famous horror writer might have described a Whitman’s Sampler chocolate cherry cordial with this copy: “You must not think me mad when I tell you what I found below the thin shell of chocolate used to disguise this bonbon’s true face. Yes! Hidden beneath its rich exterior is a hideously moist cherry cordial! What deranged architect could have engineered this non-Euclidean aberration? I dare not speculate.”

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