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Quiz: Answers in the Form of a Question

17-October-07 / James Callan

1) Elizabeth Taylor won her second Best Actress Oscar for playing Martha in what 1966 film based on an Edward Albee play?
2) What soundtrack is the only album with a question for a title to win the Grammy for Album of the Year?
3) What 2000 buddy comedy inspired the title of Michael Moore’s 2003 followup to his book Stupid White Men?
4) Madonna had a #1 hit in 1987 with a song that shared its title with what 1983 top 40 hit by Eurythmics?
5) According to the movie Stripes, the answer to this riddle is “to get from the left to the right.”
6) What 1993 song by Haddaway had a second burst of popularity starting in 1996 when it was featured on Saturday Night Live?
7) What advertising slogan debuted in 1971 in a commercial featuring vocals by Ella Fitzgerald?
8) Turns out the answer to this Fox Television question was Darva Conger, but only for about two months.
9) The short film “True” inspired a series of Anheuser-Busch TV commercials centered around what catchphrase?
10) According to M. Night Shyamalan, The Sixth Sense was inspired by an episode of what 1990s horror anthology series?

Average score (21 teams): 6.67

Quiz: All or Nothing

26-September-07 / James Callan

1) The New York Times‘ motto is “all the news that’s” what?
2) What 1984 film is about a young boy’s efforts to save Fantasia from The Nothing?
3) Name two of the three artists who sang “All for Love” on the soundtrack of 1993’s The Three Musketeers.
4) The anti-consumerist protest Buy Nothing Day takes place the day after what holiday?
5) What All My Children actress was nominated for a Daytime Emmy 18 years in a row before winning in 1999?
6) Being and Nothingness, the treatise that kick-started existentialism, was written by what French philosopher?
7) The All Blacks are the rugby union team for what country?
8) Cordelia is told that “nothing will come of nothing” in which Shakespeare play?
9) Dennis Haysbert, who tells you that “you’re in good hands with Allstate,” used to play the president on what TV show?
10) What word completes these Talking Heads lyrics? “From the age of the dinosaurs / Cars have run on gasoline / Where, where have they gone? / Now, it’s nothing but” what?

Average score: 7.3

Quiz: Answers Phrased in the Form of a Question

5-September-07 / James Callan

1) Comedian Ryan Stiles frequently appeared on both the British and US versions of what improv comedy show?

2) On April 24, 1992, ABC aired the final episodes of Growing Pains, MacGyver, and what long-running sitcom, ending the popular career of Danny Pintauro?

3) What catchphrase, later quoted by Walter Mondale, was first heard in a commercial called “Fluffy Bun”?

4) What’s the first album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, later spoofed on a collection of Get Fuzzy cartoons?

5) Someone beat up Dan Rather in 1986. Inspired by the incident, R.E.M. wrote what song, the first single off their 1994 album Monster?

6) What four-word question from the 1933 version of Island of Dr. Moreau was answered “We are Devo” in 1978?

7) The ACME Detective Agency tracks a criminal mastermind around the globe in what software game series and educational children’s game show?

8) What’s the love theme from Superman, spoken by Lois Lane in the film, the title of which could also make a good icebreaker with Professor X?

9) What advertising slogan was introduced in a TV commercial set in an Alexander Hamilton museum?

10) What 1987 book made the American Library Association’s “most frequently banned books” list because, in addition to the main character, you can find a topless woman “On the Beach”?

Round 3 at the Old Pequliar on Sept. 4, 2007.