TODAY’S QUESTION:
The international airport in Venice is named after what native son?
YESTERDAY’S ANSWER:
Tag: airport
Round 6 at the Old Pequliar on May 6, 2008
Average score: 6.33/10 (12 teams)
1) In Toy Story, the little green aliens who live at Pizza Planet believe they’re destined be chosen to go to a better place — by what?
2) If you’re using a MetroCard vending machine, you’re probably planning to take public transit in what metro area?
3) “I hitched a ride with a vending machine repair man” is the opening lyric to what 1996 Sheryl Crow song?
4) If you travel to Japan to indulge your buru-sera fetish, you might be disappointed to discover that it’s against the law to stock vending machines with what?
5) Contestants competed to create the best amuse buche using $10 worth of ingredients from vending machines on an episode of what reality show?
6) You can buy black-and-white photos wrapped in cellophane from the original Art-O-Mat machine, a vintage vending machine that originally sold what?
7) AltaVista’s translation service takes its name from what small, yellow, highly improbable creature sold in vending machines in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy?
8) What 1927 Edward Hopper painting is set in a restaurant where you could buy an entire meal from vending machines?
9) In the movie Airport, just before boarding an airplane with a bomb in a briefcase, D.O. Guerrero buys what from an airport vending machine?
10) Last week, over 700,000 people watched a video on YouTube of Hillary Clinton attempting to do what with a machine in a convenience store?
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1) Metro Transit is to King County as Community Transit is to what?
2) What state has been the nation’s leading producer of milk since 1993?
3) In 1282, which neighboring country was the first future member of the UK to be conquered by England: Ireland, Scotland, or Wales?
4) What two countries occupy the vast majority of the Iberian Peninsula?
5) If you flew to the busiest airport in the country named after someone who’s still alive, what state would you be in in?
6) If you want to visit the site of the Battle of Waterloo, what country do you need to visit?
7) What country, the most populous member of the European Union, also contains its geographic center?
8) Four Asian countries belong to La Francophonie, a group of countries whose culture, language, and history have been influenced by France. Name two of them.
9) Iraq called it their 19th province. What do we call it?
10) Which Seattle neighborhood is named after a chief of the Nisqually tribe who was hanged for murder in 1858 but exonerated by a Historical Court of Inquiry in 2004?
Round 1 at the Old Pequliar on Sept. 4, 2007.