mighty fine trivia by James Callan

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Quiz: You Make Me Feel Like Dancing

1) The first-ever Electric Boogaloo was a sequel to what film?

2) In 2003, what game was registered as an official sport in Norway, under the name “machine dancing”?

3) Fuse TV’s show Pants-Off Dance-Off was hosted during its second season by Jodie Sweetin, formerly a child actor on what sitcom?

4) What scantily-clad Prince protege and rumored romantic partner of Joan Jett released a series of aerobic striptease DVDs?

5) The phrase “it’s got a good beat and you can dance to it” came from the “Rate-A-Record” segment of what TV show?

6) The Saturday Night Fever soundtrack includes an instrumental disco version of what symphony?

7) David Rose’s instrumental “The Stripper,” along with a woman encouraging you to “take it off–take it all off,” was featured in a commercial for what kind of product?

8) According to a 1990 movie title, what is “the forbidden dance”?

9) What pop hit by the Spanish group Los Del Rio was originally choreographed as a rumba?

10) Former musician Jack Mackie is the mastermind behind what whimsical pieces of local public art?

Round 2 at the Old Pequilar on Sept. 4, 2007.

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Quiz: Familiar Quotations

1) From 1944 to 2001, Smokey Bear said “Only you can prevent forest fires.” Since April, 2001, Smokey says “only you can prevent” what?
2) If you dial 443-4567 in Seattle, you’ll hear Russ Leatherman say what five words?
3) “Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars,” urged Casey Kasem at the end of what radio show?
4) According to Simone de Beauvoir, “housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day” closely resembles the torment of what mythological figure?
5) What American actress remembered in 1984, “I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.”
6) Steve Allen coined the question “Is it bigger than a breadbox?” in 1953 as a panelist on what long-running game show?
7) “In space, no one can hear you scream” was introduced as the advertising slogan for what movie?
8) According to New Yorker cartoonist Peter Steiner, “on the Internet, nobody knows” what?
9) Gloria Steinem said “a woman reading” what “feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual”?
10) Dirty Harry first says “Go ahead, make my day” in what sequel?
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