Round 2 at the Old Pequliar on May 5, 2009

All about spiders!

1) According to Roman myth, Arachne was turned into a spider after Minerva challenged her to what kind of contest?

2) Who is “terrific,” “radiant,” and “humble,” but not “crunchy”?

3) When David Bowie was Ziggy Stardust, what did he call his backing band?

4) Who directed the 2002 film Spider, as well as a version of The Fly?

5) Who’s the mythological trickster spider from West Africa who’s starred in children’s books and a couple of Neil Gaiman novels?

6) In Dungeons & Dragons, Lolth, the Demon Queen of Spiders, is the main goddess worshipped by what race?

7) What TV lawyer played a rural veterinarian menaced by tarantulas in the 1977 film Kingdom of the Spiders?

8) To harvest silk proteins from its milk, Canadian company Nexia introduced spider genes into what kind of farm animal?

9) A sequence involving sailors being eaten by giant spiders was cut from what classic 1933 film?

10) According to legend, what Scottish hero was inspired by the perseverence of a spider trying and trying again to spin a web?

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