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Multi-question quizzes on a topic. Mostly pub quiz rounds, deployed against real live possibly drunk trivia fans.

Trivia + wordplay: Trianguation

21-May-09 / James Callan

Round 3 at the Old Pequliar on May 5, 2009

Trivia meets wordplay. Iâ€™ll give you three definitions. You tell me the word all three of them could define.

Example: an after-dinner cocktail, a kosher insect, and a synonym for padawan? Grasshopper.

Got it? Here we go:

1) a Supreme Court plaintiff, a university, and a famous encyclopedia

2) the opposite of draw, part of a LEGO, and an earring

3) an Heiress Records album, a Gilmore Girls character, and a Trojan

4) a book by Alex Haley, a card, and a kind of bee

5) a basketball game, h, and a type of power

6) Louise Brooks, a little comic strip character, and something amazing

7) a perpetually rejected fish, a Revlon fragrance, and part of the phonetic alphabet

8) a variety of apple, a Toni Morrison novel, and a Transformer

9) a river, someone known for his escapes, and the opposite of ladder

10) a Bumstead, a text file, and a monster

ANSWERS (no peeking!)

20-May-09 / James Callan

TODAY’S QUESTION:

What 1997 hit was bitterly described as “the best song Jagger and Richards have written in 20 years”?

YESTERDAY’S ANSWER:

The question: What popular chain restaurant takes part of its name from founder Paul Fleming?

Trivia quiz: Arachnotrivia

20-May-09 / James Callan

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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19-May-09 / James Callan

TODAY’S QUESTION:

Another naming question: What popular chain restaurant takes part of its name from founder Paul Fleming?

YESTERDAY’S ANSWER:

What well-known finance term derives its name from engineer Bill Fair and mathematician Earl Isaac?

Trivia quiz: American History May

19-May-09 / James Callan

Round 1 at the Old Pequliar on May 2, 2009

Stuff that happened in May in American history.

1) On May 1, 1992, who appeared on TV and asked “Can we stop … making it horrible for the older people and the kids”?

2) What annual sporting event was nationally televised for the first time on May 3, 1952?

3) The 1886 rally at Chicago’s Haymarket Square that turned into a riot was one incident in labor unions’ long struggle to achieve what goal?

4) The headline on the May 8, 1915, New York Times said what vessel was “twice torpedoed off Irish coast”?

5) What building was the tallest in the world from late May 1930 to early May 1931?

6) In May 1932, who entered the US Penitentiary in Atlanta to serve an 11-year sentence for tax evasion?

7) In May 1953, Ernest Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for what novel, the last published in his lifetime?

8) On May 11, 1996, everyone aboard flight 592 of what low-cost airline was killed when it crashed into the Everglades?

9) The White Night riots broke out in 1979 when what killer was convicted of voluntary manslaughter?

10) What popular combination of ditali, ditalini, tubetti, and tubetini made its debut on May 16, 1965?

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18-May-09 / James Callan

TODAY’S QUESTION:

What well-known finance term derives its name from engineer Bill Fair and mathematician Earl Isaac?

PREVIOUS ANSWER:

In 1965, the Great Gazoo debuted on The Flintstones (which was canceled not long after that). What Mel Brooks mainstay voiced the little green guy?

Trivia quiz: Movies

18-May-09 / James Callan

Round 7 at the Old Pequliar on April 7, 2009

1) Two Seattle detectives swap trivia questions while keeping an eye on a lovely waitress in what 1987 movie?

2) Because of Madonna’s involvement, what 1985 drama filmed in Spokane was renamed Crazy for You in several countries?

3) What 1988 film “Based on true events in the life of Frank Dux” features Jean-Claude Van Damme competing in the Kumite, “the secret contest where the world’s greatest warriors fight in a battle to the death”?

4) “The first casualty of war is innocence” was the tagline for what Oscar-winning 1986 film?

5) Kiefer Sutherland, star of the real-time 24, plays a sinister voice in what 2003 suspense film also told in real time?

6) Following one in 1956 and one in 1978, what 1993 science fiction film starring Gabrielle Anwar was the third adaptation of a novel by Jack Finney?

7) What 1986 sequel won an Oscar for its star 25 years after the original movie, in which he also starred, was released?

8) Because Nicole Kidman injured herself while filming Moulin Rouge, Jodie Foster took over the lead in what 2002 thriller?

9) What 1999 mafia film features a score by The RZA, a copy of Rashomon, and extensive use of homing pigeons? (Half point for the short title, full point for the whole thing)

10) What actor or actress appeared in all nine of these films?

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Trivia quiz: The Duality of Man

15-May-09 / James Callan

Round 6 at the Old Pequliar on April 7, 2009

Theme of the round: All about duos.

1) What Disney movie has a direct-to-video sequel wherein one of the main characters “has a glitch”?

2) What TGIF comedy on ABC featured Kelly Ripa as one of the title characters?

3) What literary detectives cracked the cases of the Tower Treasure, the Mystery of Cabin Island, and the Missing Chums, among many others?

4) “The Mac Dad will make you jump jump” and “the Daddy Mac will make you jump jump” according to the 1992 hit by what group?

5) If last names had been used in the title, what 1986 biopic about a doomed love affair would’ve been called Ritchie and Spungen?

6) Frank Sinatra pulled some strings to reunite what comedy team on a televised benefit for the Muscular Dystrophy Association?

7) What gourmet grocery store first opened in SoHo in 1977, but hasn’t gotten any closer to Seattle than the Napa Valley?

8) Before they become a Saturday Night Live star and a Mystery Man, what comedy duo had their own Nickelodeon sitcom and starred in Good Burger?

9) The 1962 film Send Me No Flowers was the last of three films featuring what popular on-screen couple?

10) “A bad imitation of Peter Lorre” hangs out with “an amped-up Larry Fine” according to the voice actors behind what zany cartoon duo?

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15-May-09 / James Callan

TODAY’S QUESTION:

In 1965, the Great Gazoo debuted on The Flintstones (which was canceled not long after that). What Mel Brooks mainstay voiced the little green guy?

PREVIOUS ANSWER:

What unusual distinction do Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Do the Right Thing, Fargo, and Toy Story have in common?

Music trivia quiz: It’s All About You

13-May-09 / James Callan

Round 5 at the Old Pequliar on April 7, 2009

Identify the song from the audio clip. In the pub, you’d get a half point for identifying the song and a half point for the performer.

Theme: Each song title includes a riff on the word “you”: you, yours, you’ve, etc.

1) All about “you” #1

2) All about “you” #2

3) All about “you” #3

4) All about “you” #4

5) All about “you” #5

6) All about “you” #6

7) All about “you” #7

8) All about “you” #8

9) All about “you” #9

10) All about “you” #10

11) All about “you” #11

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