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Round 8 at the Old Pequliar on Dec. 2, 2008
Average score: 4.8/10 (15 teams)Google’s got a funky logo — what’s the occasion?
You know how Google likes to play with its logo to commemorate special occasions? Here’s 10 of those decked-out presentations. Your job: Identify the occasion being commemorated.
Note: Some are holidays, i.e. Ash Wednesday. Some are milestones, i.e. the anniversary of the sinking of the Maine. All are real Google logos.
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Round 5 at the Old Pequliar on Dec. 2, 2008
Average score: 6.57/11 (15 teams)Each song title is a woman’s name (parentheticals excluded, if applicable). Valid answer: “Michele” or “Julia.” Invalid: “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds.”
Identify the song and the artist for a half point each.
Girls! Girls! Girls! Question 1
Girls! Girls! Girls! Question 2
Girls! Girls! Girls! Question 3
Girls! Girls! Girls! Question 4
Girls! Girls! Girls! Question 5
Girls! Girls! Girls! Question 6
Girls! Girls! Girls! Question 7
Girls! Girls! Girls! Question 8
Girls! Girls! Girls! Question 9
Girls! Girls! Girls! Question 10
Girls! Girls! Girls! Question 11
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Round 7 at the Old Pequliar on Dec. 2, 2008
Average score: 6.8/10 (15 teams)1) Queen’s song “Keep Passing the Open Windows” was originally written for what 1984 movie, which featured Nastassja Kinski as a woman who dresses in a bear suit?
2) What 1998 thriller, directed by Tony Scott, stars Gene Hackman as a surveillance expert similar to the character he played in The Conversation?
3) What 1990 Christian Slater film about a mysterious high-school rebel won the Golden Space Needle award at SIFF, defeating Jesus of Montreal?
4) Billy Crystal originally wrote what 2001 comedy “about celebrity, family, and other forms of insanity,” so he could play the romantic lead, but ended up playing John Cusack’s publicist instead?
5) What 2001 comedy was the first film made featuring two African-American Oscar winners, specifically Whoopi Goldberg and Cuba Gooding, Jr.?
6) According to Salon.com’s critic Stephanie Zacharek, the real stars of what 2003 caper are the Mini Coopers involved in the chase scene?
7) What 1999 comedy/horror movie about a boy who accidentally kills his parents and best friends had its release date pushed back because of the Columbine massacre?
8) What 1998 big last-day-of-high-school party movie includes nine actors who appeared on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and four that appeared on Six Feet Under?
9) What 1997 movie features a British spy foiling the nefarious Project Vulcan, a subterranean delivery system for nuclear warheads?
10) What actor or actress appears in all nine of these movies?
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Round 6 at the Old Pequliar on Dec. 2, 2008
Average score: 4.93/10 (15 teams)1) “One Night in Bangkok,” the hit single from Chess, featured music by Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, former members of what band?
2) The Amar Opening, Réti Opening, and Dunst Opening all start with white moving what piece on their first move?
3) What Lewis Carroll novel takes place on a series of fields resembling a giant chess board?
4) The bishop in modern chess is a modern version of what piece in chaturanga, which represented one of the four classical divisions of the Indian army?
5) Bobby Fischer died in what European country, which had awarded him citizenship because he “put it on the map”?
6) The book Poems and Problems combines chess problems with poems originally written in Russian and translated into English by what author?
7) If you’d like a bunch of bored white-collar workers to transcribe audio, label pictures, or other human-necessary tasks, you could use what Amazon web service, which was named after an 18th-century chess-playing automaton secretly controlled by a human?
8) Pixar’s short film “Geri’s Game” was theatrically released before what film, their second full-length feature?
9) In 1999, MSN Gaming Zone hosted “the greatest game in the history of chess,” where Gary Kasparov spent 4 months playing — and eventually defeating — what credited opponent?
10) In The Seventh Seal, a knight plays a game of chess with Death. During their Bogus Journey, Bill and Ted play four different games with Death, winning them all. Name 1 for one point, and all 4 for two points.
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Round 3 at the Old Pequliar on Dec. 2, 2008
Average score: 6.07/10 (15 teams)Triangulation is the product of an unholy union between Wikipedia’s disambiguation pages, seldom-used dictionary definitions, Urban Dictionary, and whatever words catch my fancy. I’ll give you three definitions, you tell me the word or phrase that fits them all.
Example: A Canadian music award, a Roman goddess, and Roger Ebert’s favorite film of 2007: Juno
1) a kind of wine, a kind of rock, and where Hewlett-Packard got its start
2) a British drink made of fruit juice and soda water, a non-Olympic racquet sport, and a zucchini
3) something you build while hunting, a forced bet, and a slat-driven device
4) five and a half yards, something you’d find near a cone, and a character from Avenue Q
5) Snoopy’s sister, a Disney princess, and Sebastian’s dog
6) a wrestling lineup, a wag or wit or joker, or something you punch
7) a kind of bug, a field, and Jennifer’s middle name
8) part of a whip, a British crime TV series, and a racial slur
9) a tour guide, to summon someone, and a 1950s Playmate of the Month
10) a porn studio, Elphaba’s story, and Bostonese for “extremely”
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Round 2 at the Old Pequliar on Dec. 2, 2008
Average score: 6.93/10 (15 teams)1) Biff, pow, urkkk, glipp, zgrupp, and other words chosen to imitate the sounds in Batman fight scenes are examples of what literary device?
2) The mayor of Batman, Turkey, is suing Warner Brothers and what director for stealing his city’s name?
3) According to the comics, the last movie Bruce Wayne’s parents saw was about what masked adventurer?
4) Super-hacker and information broker Oracle is the current crimefighting identity of what Batman ally paralyzed by the Joker in 1988’s Killing Joke?
5) A scene of Batman debating what crotchety nemesis became popular on YouTube in October because of its amusing echoes of the Obama/McCain debates?
6) In the 1987 Batman story A Death in the Family, readers called 1-900 numbers and voted to kill what character?
7) What fan-favorite director and comic book writer named his daughter Harley Quinn, after the Joker-obsessed villain from Batman: The Animated Series?
8) According to Frank Miller, Gotham City is New York at night, while what other comic book city is New York during the day?
9) Two long-standing members of Batman’s rogues gallery were introduced in 1940 in Batman #1. For a half point each, name them.
10) What go-go dance, introduced in the first episode of the Batman TV series, was nominated for TV Land’s Greatest TV Dance Craze, but lost to The Fonzie?
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Round 1 at the Old Pequliar on Dec. 2, 2008
Average score: 5.67/10 (15 teams)1) What US president, called Sharp Knife by the Creek indians, is the subject of the recent biography American Lion?
2) A Squared, The Breakfast Capital of the World, and the Paris of the Midwest are nicknames for cities in what state?
3) “Little Twelvetoes,” “Them Not-So-Dry Bones,” and “Sufferin’ Till Suffrage” all aired as part of what series of animated short films?
4) What famous Red Sox partisan was the most recent American to be named sexiest man alive by People magazine, before being displaced this year by Hugh Jackman?
5) Sherman’s March to the Sea covered the 300 miles between what two Georgia cities? (Half point each)
6) The Kim Carnes song “Above the Waterline” was the original theme song to what iconic TV series?
7) Machias Seal Island, the Dixon Entrance, and North Island are all areas currently subject to boundary disputes between the US and what other country?
8) What Beach Boys album, featuring “Wouldn’t It Be Nice?” and “Sloop John B,” was named the second greatest album of all time by Rolling Stone, and spurred the Beatles to record Sgt. Pepper’s in an effort to equal it?
9) Flag, an encaustic, oil, and collage painting mounted on plywood, became a major influence on US pop art when it was released in 1955 by what artist?
10) Who Would Buy This? is the recently released story of what local [i.e. Seattle-based] business?
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Round 7 at the Old Pequliar on Nov. 18, 2008
Average score: 4.2/10 (15 teams) — a little more difficult than I’d like1) 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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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!
